Here’s a great video of the German double bass ensemble Bassiona Amorosa (www.bassiona-amorosa.de) performing a Ludwig Streicher arrangement of Bottesini’s Carnival de Venice. I just found a whole slew of new videos featuring this ensemble, and I’ll...
Here is a video from Greek double bassist Haris Pazaroulas of the third movement of the Koussevitzky Concerto with the Ionian University Orchestra. This performance was conducted by Phaedra Giannelou earlier this year. Folks unfamiliar with the third movement of this...
I’ve been exchanging some great e-mails recently with electric bassist Ben Torrey, who blogs about and performs classical music for the electric bass (although he also plays upright as well). Yes, that’s right–a bass blog specializing in classical...
We’ve got a real treat for folks today. Phillip Serna had to acquire special permission from the publisher of the Tubin Concerto for Double Bass in order for us to release it, and it is likely that many readers out there haven’t heard this piece before. I...
Matt Heller filed this blog post under ‘extreme bass-geekdom’ on his blog hellafrisch, and he’s right, but I love it anyway. Check out Matt’s post for an example of a particularly clunky arpeggiated section from Smetana’s Ma Vlast. Matt...
