CD 1 - Sonatas for Bassoon & Continuo:
Michel Corrette:
Sonatas pour le Basson avec la Basse Continue – Les Délices de la Solitude, OEuvre XX:
Sonata V
Sonata I
Sonata III

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier:
Cinq sonates pour le Basson avec la Basse Continue - Sonata terza
Six Sonates pour deux Basses. Xleme OEuvre, - Sonata prima
Cinq sonates pour le Basson avec la Basse Continue - Sonata prima
Six Sonates pour deux Basses. Xleme OEuvre - Sonata seconda

CD 2:
François Devienne:
Six Sonates pour un Basson avec un Accompagnement de Basse, Op. 24, No. I-VI

CD 3:
Etienne Ozi:
Six Grandes Sonates from “Nouvelle Méthode de Basson”

Like the oboe, today's bassoon has its roots in France. No wonder, then, that it developed its own repertoire early on, not infrequently written by virtuosos on the instrument. The American baroque bassoonist Danny Bond, who is active in many of Europe's leading early music ensembles, dedicated three CDs to the French repertoire for solo bassoon on ACCENT between 1983 and 2000. The first CD highlights the French Baroque with works by Michel Corrette and Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, while the other two CDs present works by two Mozart contemporaries, François Devienne and Etienne Ozi, who were themselves celebrated bassoon virtuosos.

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Recordings: l’Église Protestante - Chapelle Royale, Brussels (Belgium), June 1983 (CD 1); Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Kerk, Harleem (Belgium), December 1992 (CD 2), September 2000 (CD 3). Bassoon: Pieter de Koningh after Prudent, Paris ca. 1765.