Download any individual CBC orchestra excerpt track


In 2007, double bassist and blogger John Grillo and created the extremely popular orchestral excerpt breakdown series for the Contrabass Conversations podcast network. This series includes performances of John playing much of the double bass orchestral audition repertoire, with commentary about each specific excerpt preceding each performance.

We’ve now made available for download any individual excerpt (with John’s commentary) from this project, so click on any link below (or right-click and choose ’save as…’ to save it to your hard drive) to check out one of the individual tracks.

Excerpts covered (click below to hear individual tracks):

Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Brahms Symphony No. 1 and 2
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
Mozart Symphony No. 35 and 39
Mahler Symphony No. 2
Schubert Symphony No. 9
Strauss Ein Heldenleben
Britten Young Person’s Guide
Verdi Otello

You can also check out the complete series of excerpts in one single episode here, or check out John’s series covering opera excerpts here.

March 13, 2008 · Filed Under bass, podcasting, student resources

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  1. Tom on April 1st, 2008 1:38 pm

    Sign the petition at SaveCBCOrchestra.com. Forward the site to your friends. Post a comment, a rant, view contacts you can write.
    http://www.SaveCBCOrchestra.com

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