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Robin O’Neill is principal bassoonist of the Philharmonia and has sat in the first bassoon chair in many other leading ensembles. He’s also a successful conductor and self-confessed JS Bach nut, and on Inside Music he appreciates how much Bach (as a bassoonist himself) gave to the instrument.

Robin also thinks about how he tries to emulate the colour, shading and intensity of the tenor voice in his bassoon playing, and describes the ‘massive workout’ of playing in Richard Strauss’s Sinfonia Domestica.

Plus he remembers how Herbert von Karajan encouraged the European Community Youth Orchestra to play like a huge chamber orchestra in Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony.

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