Solo concerto and recital repertoire
Below is a selection from Laurence’s solo recital and concerto repertoire. If you are interested in a recital with piano, a concerto performance with orchestra, or any other type of solo or chamber music concert, please contact Laurence directly via the CONTACT form.
Bassoon and orchestra
Click below each listed piece to hear a sample recording:
Elgar, Sir Edward: Romance, Op.62*
Gounod: Funeral March of a Marionette
(The Alfred Hitchcock TV series theme tune)
Haydn, Michael: Concertino*
Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K.191*
(recorded excerpts from all three movements)
Ravel: Pièce en forme de Habañera
Stamitz, Carl: Bassoon Concerto in F*
(recorded excerpts from all three movements)
Vaughan-Williams: Studies in English Folk Song
Vinter, Gilbert: The Playful Pachyderm
Weber: Andante e Rondo Ungarese, Op.35*
(Andante and Hungarian Rondo)
Weber: Bassoon Concerto in F, Op.75*
(recorded excerpts from all three movements)
Other solo works with orchestra
(no recorded excerpts currently available)
Maconchy, Elizabeth: Concertino
Villa-Lobos, Heitor: ‘Ciranda das Sete Notas’
Williams, John: 'The Five Sacred Trees'
* orchestral parts available for free loan for up to six weeks from Laurence Perkins.
Bassoon and piano
Click below each listed piece to hear a sample recording:
Grovlez, Gabriel: Sicilienne et Allegro giocoso
Hurlstone, William: Sonata in F
(recorded excerpts from all four movements)
Saint-Saens: Sonata in G
(recorded excerpts from all three movements)
Vinter, Gilbert: Reverie
Other solo works with piano
(no recorded excerpts currently available)
Bernstein, Leonard: Suite from West Side Story
Gershwin, George: A Gershwin Rhapsody
Weber, Carl Maria von: Andante e Rondo Ungarese, Op.35 (version for bassoon and piano)
Recording credits:
Bassoon and orchestra
Haydn, Mozart, Stamitz and Weber works with Manchester Camerata conducted by Dougles Boyd - from Bassoon Concertos CD (by kind permission of Hyperion Records Ltd.)
Elgar, Gounod, Ravel and Vinter works with the New London Orchestra conducted by Ronald Corp - from The Playful Pachyderm CD (by kind permission of Hyperion Records Ltd.)
Bassoon and piano
All works with Michael Hancock (piano) - Saint-Saens and Hurlstone recordings by kind permission of Hyperion Records Ltd.