Members of the Montreal Festival Winds at a
recording session for "Bach in the Wind".

Mordechai Rechtman
Mordechai Rechtman is a renowned bassoonist, conductor, arranger, teacher and educator. Together with his parents he left Germany in 1933 and came to Israel in 1934. Between 1946 and 1991 he was principal bassoonist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

While pursuing his career as a bassoonist, Mordechai Rechtman has spent much time writing transcriptions and arrangements for wind quintet, wind instruments and large wind ensembles. His unique talent as an arranger has been highly acclaimed. His arrangements, published by leading publishing houses, were played by orchestras and major ensembles all over the world.

"When the musicians sounded the first few measures of the Bach, they did to our ears what happens to our eyes when we are dazzled." …" No one knows more about winds than Rechtman, a claim that seemed to be confirmed not only by his arrangements from Bach's organ works, but in the way he conducted the group." - The Montreal Gazette, Eric McLean

The Musicians

FLUTE / PICCOLO
Timothy Hutchins
Marie-Andrée Benny
Virginia Spicer

OBOE / ENGLISH HORN
Theodore Baskin
Josée Marchand
Pierre-Vincent Plante

CLARINET / BASS CLARINET
Mark Simons
Paul Globus
Kaïs Demers

BASSOON / CONTRA BASSOON
Richard Hoenich
Michael Hansche
Mark Romatz

FRENCH HORN
Louis Philippe Marsolais
Maude Lussier
Christian Beacher
Louis-Pierre Bergeron
TRUMPET
Russell Devuyst
Jean-Luc Gagnon
Michael Plummer

TROMBONE / BASS TROMBONE
Erik Hongisto
Hugo Bégin
Pierre Beaudry

TUBA
Yan Sallafranque

DOUBLE BASS
Eric Chappell