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Rautavaara Bass Concerto

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This is likely to be the first time most people have ever hear Angel of Dusk, Einojuhani Rautavaara’s double bass concerto. Special thanks to double bassist Phillip Serna for securing the distribution rights to this piece.
This piece is approximately 26 minutes long. Two technical issues are worth noting:

The video [...]

Breaking new double bass ground with the Tubin Concerto

We released a video of the complete Tubin Concerto featuring blog and podcast collaborator Phillip Serna late last week.  This, to my knowledge, is the only double bass recording of the Tubin Concerto available online, and Phillip does an excellent job with it.
I neglected to put up the detailed program notes that Phillip constructed [...]