Guy Tuneh performs Mendelssohn Sextet – mvt 1


Guy Tuneh, the wonderful bassist whom we have featured numerous times on DBB.org and Contrabass Conversations, recently performed the Mendelssohn Sextet in D Major with Villa Musica. This live performance shows off Mr. Tuneh’s dynamic double bass playing in a chamber music setting. Visit Guy Tuneh online at www.guytuneh.com, check out his Contrabass Conversations page, and subscribe to the podcast for more great content from Mr. Tuneh.

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36 Responses to “Guy Tuneh performs Mendelssohn Sextet – mvt 1”

  1. tonbaron on December 6th, 2007 2:04 pm

    Just in time to show that a great bass player should play everything, not only solo or orchestrea, also chambermusic.
    go on Maestro Tuneh!
    thanks jason for a wonderful posting

  2. Nora on December 6th, 2007 2:14 pm

    Great playing !!!
    BRAVO !!
    Thank you Jason

  3. Frank on December 6th, 2007 2:31 pm

    Amazing.. what a team…
    the first viola player, plays in the Berlin Philharmonic, the cello player is the principal of the SWR
    and last but not least; GUY TUNEH
    who shows again that bass playing has no limit!!!
    What an Amazing bass playing.
    if we all play bass like this, the bass will only gain
    more respect !!

  4. Susan on December 6th, 2007 2:48 pm

    Well, for me its clear;
    that the bass souldn’t be played only in an orchestra (as i believed untill today)
    An amazing way to show the bass, and he can do.
    Thank you Mr. Tuneh.
    you changed my mind about the theme
    Bass as a front stage instrument.
    Gret Job!!
    (by the way,we need more from his kind)

  5. Dan on December 6th, 2007 2:52 pm

    Jason as you said, wonderful bassist !

  6. Johannes on December 6th, 2007 3:05 pm

    Wow what smoth pizz he has…
    what a warm sound…
    great team work, the bass mixed perfect with the others and still comes out.. very good.
    What about the rest?
    please Jason i would like to hear the solo bass
    that comes later.

  7. Dima on December 6th, 2007 3:46 pm

    THEY SAY that bass players are not the most intresting players that you can find on stage or that they are to slow or having a bad technic or to big or that the dont have great music to play..
    Well,
    Mr. Tuneh teach me only one thing;

    Dont hear that
    THEY SAY !

    NOT IN THAT CASE

    Very good playing with alot to say, with amazing
    technic (better then the tech of some violin or cello players that i know – the pizz is nobel
    and his bow tech is just one of a kind, )
    and a great music to play!
    Its amazing me how he put music with technic
    together in that way.
    show me that i still have so much to do untill
    i would be able to play like this…

  8. xxx on December 6th, 2007 3:57 pm

    What about the calm type of a bass player?
    the one who just give the bass?

  9. Dave on December 6th, 2007 4:21 pm

    Who cares, this type can stay at home!!
    Mr. Tuneh is doing great job.
    its cool what this guy is doing.

  10. ella on December 7th, 2007 5:19 am

    Nice to see how the bassist is leading the Ensemble.

  11. Mozart on December 7th, 2007 5:58 am

    Out of this world!!
    very special.

  12. nida on December 7th, 2007 12:53 pm

    What a plesure !

  13. Andrew on December 8th, 2007 3:39 am

    Jason thanks alot for posting this Wonderful
    video, its great to see them.
    I think that Mr. Tuneh is a great bassist and its
    would be clever to ask him for more videos about his way of playing.
    ones again thanks Jason, i can learn alot from
    Guy’s playing.

  14. Klaus on December 8th, 2007 4:30 am

    Its doing so good to know that a Double-bass
    can, and is taking dynamic part in making music
    and in the same level as the violins, violas, cellos and even the piano!

    its the first time that i hear the name Guy Tuneh
    and his way of playing bass. (who is this Guy??)

    wowww , what a great artistic level.

    (N.B. – so not all the bass players are theme of funny jokes!)

    Jason, its great that you give this kind of artistic videos stage, its bring the bass a step ahead
    and give us the chance to see and learn new ways of playing the bass!!

  15. Rudolf on December 8th, 2007 5:10 am

    i am from Germany,
    to the subject if bass should take part of making
    chamber music or playing Solo or playing orchestra music,
    this bassist put our world on his head!!
    (he is from other kind – no one that i know play like this)
    most of the people who are like him are not being so loved by other people… and we think about them as “hard to go on with” outsiders.
    god , bass as a dynamic partner in making music same as violin & co, the bass sould just stay “low” and just give the bass!
    the bass have to be as good as the violin to do this.
    Even if i realy try, there is nothing bad to say about this bassist (Tuneh) but …
    i dont realy think that we are ready for this kind of bass playing, yet.

  16. ooooooo on December 8th, 2007 5:48 am

    Dear “Rudolf”
    let’s see,
    why do you have a problem with the way how Mr. Tuneh is playing the bass?
    and why the people in europe/germany are posting this kinds of comments?
    i can remember that when jason was posting
    the video with Mr. Shehata, all kind of comments were caming from that side of the globe,
    do you have a problem there in germany??
    well,
    Both, Mr. Shehata and Mr. Tuneh are Bass players from the first Class!!
    each one of them in his own way!
    they both were leading the bass grupe of
    Barenboim’s west-eastern divan orchestra
    just great in the last sommer!
    each one in his own way. (both were playing the hard Solo in the Schönberg variations – and both were Amazing!!! and no one is even thinking about to say who is better , every one of them is just one of his kind! & both are just amazing!)
    NO bad things to say … !!
    but you, you have a problem…
    its time that people there in europe will start to take care, ’cause you have a problem,
    why?
    be happy that you have this kind of players
    on your side!!

  17. Joey on December 8th, 2007 9:35 am

    Hi “Rudolf”
    first you cry ’cause the bass is not part of the
    instrunents witch enjoing a status of a chamber or Solo insteunents,
    then come some one (as Mr. Tuneh – witch is by the way an amazing bassist and an artist)
    like this, who show,
    that the bass can be/is one of those instruments,
    and then you cry that you dont like him ???

    for me he is an amazing bassit, musicion & person!
    just try to learn from this kind of people and not to hate them!
    but
    if you thinks that you can do better, i
    would like to see and to hear you, & please
    dont let me wait so long.

  18. Robert on December 8th, 2007 12:34 pm

    few points:

    a) Guy Tuneh is Genius! (very few can do what
    he does and in that way)

    b) each motion that he does is gold! (come great
    in the music, love his pizz & his spirit)

    c) if there is a chance to hear his Solo in the
    Allegro vivace right after the 2nd time?

    d) the rest of the ensemble, they are doing
    just great, because with this kind of a bass- player its not easy to keep with!

    e) Please post more videos/music from him

    f) Jason keep on walking that way

    that all i’m out!

  19. Dean on December 8th, 2007 2:13 pm

    Great playing!

  20. Jusha on December 8th, 2007 2:31 pm

    where can i get a leason from him?

  21. Diego on December 9th, 2007 4:21 am

    Can he fit in an orchestra?

  22. Tobias on December 9th, 2007 11:47 am

    In this case the right thing to ask is
    if an orchestra will fit to him?

  23. Gerard on December 10th, 2007 10:30 am

    Its the first bassist with german bow that i can say that i like his sound as if it would be french bow, he is very elegant, and very smoth!
    wow ,i was allways thinking the german bowers play
    hard and very loud.
    cool..

  24. Constantin on December 12th, 2007 5:32 am

    This Guy is not just playing the music,
    This guy is doing art with his bass.
    Amazing ,Great!

  25. Joachim on December 16th, 2007 1:37 pm

    What a player!

  26. Joachim on December 16th, 2007 1:39 pm

    What about the 2-mvt?

  27. Jason on December 16th, 2007 10:49 pm

    I’ll be putting the second movement out this week.

  28. Joachim on December 17th, 2007 1:39 pm

    Great Jason,
    Mega god job!
    thank you for this amazing video!
    i heard that Mr. Tuneh is going to play
    Rococo on Bass in Basel, do you know some thing about it?

  29. Nicol on December 19th, 2007 1:09 pm

    Wow , amazing!
    great energy, amazing power.
    Maestro Tuneh ,go on.

  30. Chon-hey on December 20th, 2007 4:35 am

    Just saw the mvt-2,
    wowww,
    very active bass player, & sounds very good!
    very oun way of using the bow.
    they are cool.
    Bravo.

  31. Alex on December 23rd, 2007 11:25 am

    Great playing,
    is it true that Mr. Tuneh played the Rococo
    on bass?

  32. Hary on December 26th, 2007 6:46 am

    Can you please post more videos from this
    AUTSTANDING Basss player?

  33. Arcadie on December 27th, 2007 1:19 am

    What a great Chamber musion

  34. hainrich on December 27th, 2007 1:28 am

    I’m with out words!

  35. XXXMan on December 27th, 2007 5:17 am

    Great playing, for this ensemble.

  36. Alfonzo on December 27th, 2007 9:41 am

    Jason please post more from Guy Tuneh.
    Thank you and happy new year!

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