Bassoon in the Soundtrack

These are some of our favorite soundtracks from movies and TV shows:

Movie Soundtracks

Never Cry Wolf
The ultimate bassoon sound track is from Never Cry Wolf. Get it, hear it! See below Movies where you'll see a bassoon for more info.

Bourne Ultimatum
The Bourne movies have the bassoon is the theme music as the opening lead. Best heard in the last one Bourne Ultimatum

March of the Penguins
This movie features the fine bassoon work of Rose Corrigan, LA bassoonist. This is an interesting movie with a sparse soundtrack, so you are going to hear the bassoon well.

Ray Pizzi in the Soundtrack
Ray spent has spent his career in Hollywood working the studios
He can be heard on bassoon in the following:
Star Wars
He's wailing up high in the Cantina Band in the very first Star Wars movie. Now that you know it's a bassoon you'll hear. The player in that band has a pretty strange looking space age bassoon. A doll is available of that dude.
Predator 2
It's a bassoon but Ray makes it sound so creepy you wouldn't know what it is. Scary.
Fandango
Ray gets a few quirky solo licks the theme music. These bring a smile to my face. Purely Pizzi.

Television Themes and Soundtracks

Rumpole
Here's the theme from a long running English show.
Rumpole Theme

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
His TV theme was taken from Gounod's Funeral March of a Marionette. For the 1959 season the theme was played by a bassoon octet (6 bassoons, 2 contrabassoons). The Bassoon Brothers have recorded the original octet version on the Captured CD. On the Wanted CD is a version for quartet with drums.

Alfred Hitchcock Hour
One episode feature an hour long soundtrack of the bassoon octet version most likely in 1960. We are researching this. The show in question had Peter Fonda in the cast.

There are many other TV shows with good bassoon leads too! Let us know any your favorites.