Françaix, Tomasi, Jolivet & Villa-Lobos: Bassoon Concertos

Matthias Rácz, together with the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and their director Johannes Klumpp, presents works for bassoon and orchestra. | This album includes exciting works by Jean Françaix, Henri Tomasi, André Jolivet, and Heitor Villa-Lobos. | Jean Françaix developed a highly distictive approach based on his knowledge and mastery of past musical styles. This helped him create a piece of series music without gravity. | Matthias Rácz, an award winning musician, debuted as a soloist at age fifteen with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra. He joined the Gürzenich Orchestra as pricipal basoon at the age of twenty-one. | Since 2013 Johannes Klumpp has been the music director and art director of the Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen as well as the art director of the festival SommerMusikAkademie Schloss Hundisburg.