Gary Karr plays Paul Mero’s Pitzi-Cats
Gary Karr’s concert performances often took camp to a new level, and nowhere is this better demonstrated than in this video of Paul Mero’s Pitzi-Cats:
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Gary Karr plays Van Goens Scherzo
Those who have seen Gary Karr perform know that he is a bit of a ham (to say the least). This performance of the Van Goens Scherzo is representative of one of the many encores that Gary would typically play during a performance as soloist. I remember hearing this same piece with [...]
Guy Tuneh plays La Sonnambula by Bottesini
This is an excellent video featuring Guy Tuneh performing the La Sonnambula variations by Bottesini. Wolfgang Kind accompanies Mr. Tuneh on piano. Mr. Tuneh and I have been in touch, and I plan on featuring him on a future episode of Contrabass Conversations!
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Volkan Orhan performs Copland Sonata 3rd Mvt.
This is a live performance of Aaron Copland’s Violin Sonata 3rd Movement. This piece is transcribed for double bass and piano by Gary Karr, and is accompanied by Gaylien Chun on piano.
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Gary Karr performs the Paganini Moses Fantasy
Our next installment in the Gary Karr video extravaganza is this recording of the Paganini Moses Fantasy. Many double bassists have been inspired by Gary’s performances and recordings of this work (I know I have), and I’m pleased to be able to share this with blog readers:
If you’d like to see a video of [...]
Gary Karr plays Rachmaninoff Vocalise - video
Finally, Gary Karr footage has made its way to YouTube, and I’m happy to be able to share it on the Bass Blog. This footage is generally pretty hard to find. You’ll be seeing many videos from Gary in the future (barring a takedown notice!) but we’ll start with a clip of Gary [...]
Furtok Double Bass Quartet No. 5
Boguslaw Furtok (a great bassist who has been featured extensively on this blog) is also a talented composer as well as performer. This video (in three short parts) is a live performance of the fifth movement of his Bass Quartet N. 5, performed here by “The Flying Basses” (members of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony-Boguslaw [...]
Blues-Style by Tony Osbourne from d’Bassists
Singapore-based bass ensemble d’Bassists just put out a video of one of their performances featuring a tune by Tony Osbourne. Tony has written a lot of bass ensemble music, much of which can be quite fun to play. Here is the most recent video from d’Bassists:
Composed by Tony Osborne in 1981. Publisher: David [...]
Guy Tuneh and Mischa Meyer play Rossini Duetto mvt 2 - Andante
This video features a performance of the second movement of the Rossini Duetto for Cello and Bass. Guy Tuneh was a former pupil of Professor B. Sanderling in Berlin, and he currently studies with Wolfgang Güttler in Basel. I have worked with Güttler in the past, and I can see a lot of [...]
Boguslaw Furtok plays de Falla
The great Boguslaw Furtok plays ‘Polo’ by Manuel de Falla in this great video:
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