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Track(s) taken from CDA68441

Pigs 'A present for Gordon Jacob'

composer
Alan Ridout (1934-1996)
1972

Laurence Perkins (bassoon), Catriona McDermid (bassoon), Amy Thompson (bassoon), Matthew Kitteringham (bassoon)
May 2025 Release
Recording details: April 2022
Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth, United Kingdom
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by Oscar Torres
Release date: May 2025
Total duration: 1 minutes 58 seconds

Cover artwork: Cover illustration. Ghislaine Howard (b1953)
Photo © Adrian Lambert
 

Pigs was a present from composer Alan Ridout to his friend Gordon Jacob, who was fascinated by pigs. Ridout appeared with handwritten copies of this music at a summer bassoon course in Canterbury in 1975—I was attending as a student, so I had the chance to play in the first-ever performance, which was given outdoors at St Augustine’s College. It has since become a favourite with bassoon players all over the world!

from notes by Laurence Perkins © 2025

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