4 Étude After Prelude VI From The Well - Tempered Clavier by Nadina Mackie Jackson

WEBER Andante & Rondo played by Nadina Mackie Jackson, bassoon; Marie Bérard, violin; Erik Paetkau, viola; Roberta Janzen, cello;

David Bowles, engineer.

Version for solo bassoon and string trio, arranged by Mordechai Rechtman, Recorded May 5, 2015 at St Anne's Anglican Church, Toronto

Demo (not commercially available)

WEBER Andante & Rondo played by Nadina Mackie Jackson, bassoon; Marie Bérard, violin; Erik Paetkau, viola; Roberta Janzen, cello;

David Bowles, engineer.

Version for solo bassoon and string trio, arranged by Mordechai Rechtman, Recorded May 5, 2015 at St Anne's Anglican Church, Toronto

Demo (not commercially available)

Nadina Mackie Jackson with Marie Bérard, violin, Erik Paetkau, viola, Roberta Janzen, cello, recorded by David Bowles May 5, 2015

This is such a gentle version compared to my 2008 version with full orchestra!

demo, played on 13,000 series Heckel (now owned by Fraser Jackson)

Les Chambristes de Montréal

February 26, 1987

Salle Claude-Champagne

recorded by Norah Fraser

Gwen Hoebig - violin

Doug McNabney - viola

Des Hoebig - cello

Brian Robinson - bass

Robert Crowley - clarinet

Nadina Mackie - bassoon

Jean Gaudreault - horn

Les Chambristes de Montreal playing Samuel Barber's Summer Music, Op. 31 + Schumann Quartet for Piano & Strings Op. 47 + Beethoven Septet Op 20 (Adago: Allegor con brio; Adagio Cantabile; Temp di Menuetto; Tema con variazioni... last two movements uploaded separately)

February 26, 1987 at Salle Claude-Chamgagne (Université de Montréal)

Recorded by Norah Fraser

When I joined the Montreal Symphony in 1981, I formed a woodwind quintet called Les Vents de l'Est, then we morphed into a string/wind chamber group called Les Chambristes, all members of the MSO, this group lasted long after I left the orchestra.

Carolyn Christie - flute

Ted Baskin - oboe

Robert Crowley - clarinet

Nadina Mackie - bassoon

Jean Gaudreault - horn

Gwen Hoebig - violin

Doug McNabney - viola

Des Hoebig - cello

Brian Robinson - bass

David Moroz - piano

My first performance of the Mozart concerto with orchestra in May, 1981, age 22, with the Curtis Symphony, Carmit Zori, concertmaster, conducted by William Smith just before I joined the Montreal Symphony. I was playing my 10,000 series Heckel with with slightly faster vibrato than I use now! Cadenzas by Bernard Garfield who came to the concert that night. Concert recorded by my father on his Nagra (which explains why all the applause is recorded!); my parents had driven 3000 miles from northern BC to hear this performance, then they drove back again.

Christopher Millard (age 21) and Nadina Mackie (age 17) playing Couperin Suite for 2 Like Instruments in 1976... I had been studying bassoon for just under 2 years with Christopher and heading to Curtis Institute the next year. I was playing a Cooper/Puchner and Christopher had a Heckel. The first of so many performances together.

There are two versions on this upload... a lot of tape hiss on the first but a clear tone; less tape noise on the second but vaguer bassoon pickup.

Christopher Millard (age 21) and Nadina Mackie (age 17) playing Couperin Suite for 2 Like Instruments in 1977... I had been studying bassoon for just under 2 years with Christopher and heading to Curtis Institute the next year. I was playing a Cooper/Puchner and Christopher had a Heckel. The first of so many performances together.

There are two versions on this upload... a lot of tape hiss on the first but a clear tone; less tape noise on the second but vaguer bassoon pickup.

This is a recording of part of one of my lessons with Sol Schoenbach in Fall 1980 at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia while I was in my final year, just a few months before joining the Montreal Symphony. I LOVE hearing Sol's beloved voice again. The background clunking sound is the cassette machine.

The first half is my lesson; the second half (starting with the frère jacques reed test) is another well-known bassoonist who was in his first year at Curtis in 1980/81.