Premiére (Ryan Romine & Sangmi Lim)

As its title suggests, this recording is a celebration of firsts. Not only is this Mr. Romine’sfirst solo album, but this album also contains many first recordings of music that has languished in obscurity for years, undeserving victims of time, tastes, and fortune. Of the twelve works on this album, eight are true premieres. The remaining four are also firsts, but in slightly different ways: Both the Solal and the Hersant have been recorded, but this will be the first recording to be widely available (though the others are definitely worth seeking out). The d’Ollone already exists on disc but here it receives its first recording on German-system bassoon. And of course, the Pierné has been recorded numerous times. It earns its place on this album by not only being good music, but also because it is the very first work written for the bassoon concours when in 1898 the Conservatoire began commissioning non-bassoonists to write the solos

Gabriel Pierné
1. Solo de Concert, op.35
(Paris concours, 1898) 5:39

CharlesRené
2. Solo de Concert
(Paris concours, 1901) 5:51

André Bloch
3. Fantaisie Variée
(Paris concours, 1902) 6:00

Henri Büsser
4. Récit et Thème Varié, op.37
(Paris concours, 1909) 4:48

Max d’Ollone
5. Romance et Tarantelle
(Paris concours, 1928) 5:06

Paul Vidal
6. Adagio et Saltarelle
(Paris concours, 1929) 5:09

Henri Challan
7-10. Suite (1937) 10:12
I. Prélude 2:01
II. Large 2:33
III. Menuet 3:22
IV. Scherzo 2:16

J.M.L. Maugüé
11. Divertissements Champêtres
(Paris concours, 1949) 5:49

Henri Martelli
12. Thème Varié, op.74
(Paris concours, 1950) 7:31

Henri Challan
13. Fantaisie
(Paris concours, 1963) 8:32

Martial Solal
14. Seul contre tous
(Paris concours, 1992) 4:32

Philippe Hersant
15. Niggun
(Paris concours, 2001) 5:47