reviews
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Mostly Mozart Festival NYC, Lincoln Center: Philadelphia Enquirer (2009)
Principal bassoonist Peter Whelan was an absolute master of fleet facility with a solidly plush tone of wondrous immediacy.
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Independent (2011)
Held in the palm of the hall's clear acoustics, bassoonist Peter Whelan was particularly impressive
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International Record Review (2011)
Enviable athleticism and expressive aplomb
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Gramophone Magazine October (2011)
Bassoonist Peter Whelan combining agility with lyricism and laid-back grace
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Early Music Review (2011)
Astounding virtuoso bassoon performance
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Irish Times (2011)
The highlight of an evening of sparky and lively music-making which included the Four Seasons was Peter Whelan's wonderfully agile handling of the almost cartoonishly vivacious Bassoon Concerto… a tour-de-force of wind playing if ever there was one.
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Gramophone (September 2010)
…soft of sound, easy of technique and possessed of the lyrical skills to bring depth to the slow movement.
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BBC Music Magazine (August 2010)
…particularly charming is the seductive Largo…mellifluously played by Peter Whelan.
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Una Voce Poco Fa (2010)
Molto bravo, infine, il fagottista Peter Whelan, prima parte della Scottish Chamber Orchestra dal 2008, che è parso trovarsi a meraviglia con l'universo "galante" che pervade ancora il Concerto per fagotto mozartiano.
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Independent on (Sunday 26 July 2009)
Chandler, flautist Katy Bircher and bassoonist Peter Whelan play a further series of exacting concertos with the effortless musicality of birds.
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Irish Times (21 August 2009)
Three of Chandler's chosen concertos involve the Irish bassoonist Peter Whelan, whose heavily grained tone and sheer agility may seem like a contradiction in terms. But it's a contradiction that adds greatly to the appeal of concertos involving an instrument Vivaldi wrote for with especial insight…this is a disc to leave you with a spring in your step.
