David Ballam sent me a link to a video of Edicson Ruiz of the Berlin Philharmonic performing the Concerto for Double Bass by Lars-Erik Larsson. The conductor in the video is Eduardo Marturet. What an amazing player! You will have to use (the dreaded) Real Player to...
Bassist Roman Patkoló’s rendition of the allegro section of Pablo Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen is truly outstanding in this video. What a bass player! Does anybody know what sort of instrument he plays?
I wrote a post in the fall of 2006 highlighting the rehearsal process of the famous ‘Trout’ Quintet documentary from 1969 featuring Daniel Barenboim on piano, Itzhak Perlman on violin, Pinchas Zuckerman on viola, Jacqueline du Pré on cello, and Zubin Mehta...
A lot of people have been requesting or commenting on this video featuring double bassist Roman Patkolo (with Jan Jirmasek accompanying on bass) and Maxim Vengerov on violin. Well, I got a comment recently directing me to a great archive of classical music video...
Jeff Bradetich is one of the world’s great double bass teachers. I’ve had the privilege to interview him several times for my podcast and work with him during the summer. Check out this great series of technique videos from Jeff. They’re filled...
