In a recent email from Naxos there was a featured album of bassoon and orchestra pieces by some of the great composers, some of whom were not known for bassoon or orchestral pieces: Such as Verdi, Puccini and Paganini. This third movement from Puccini’s Bassoon Concerto is certainly no master work – but a charming little piece nonetheless! Enjoy
Puccini Bassoon Concert 
My first post in a while! Hope you enjoy it
These Opera lovers! They just can’t believe or accept – that a Classical Music “buff” wouldn’t enjoy Opera. So they keep trying to convert me! Out of the 6 opera pieces a friend gave me … This one I like a lot.
Humming chorus from Madame Butterfly by Puccini
My wife says; HOW could you not love this? (O Mio Babbino Caro by Puccini) And I say … well – I guess I do – a little bit! (*uTube link)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0diDwHtATw
BUT – a BIG BUT! … I feel the emotional power much more from the Orchestral version.
Puccini-o-mio-babbino-caro
Hijacked by car ads, Hollywood tearjerkers and Muzac/elevator music; they remain eternally and universally appealing!
Rachmaninoff – Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini. Heaps of these versions on a “theme by Paganini” by a number of Interperters and Composers. I like this particular one by Rachmaninoff /Performed by John Barry from “Somewhere in Time” – The movie.
rhapsody-on-a-theme-by-paganini
What can you say?! Puccini’s O Mio Bambino Caro (from the movie A room with a view)
o-mio-babbino-caro
Not sure if this is the best version (by the St. Louis Symphony) – But it’s good enough!
fantasia on greensleeves