Here is a little more Bottesini (this time the La Sonnambula Variations) from the great Boguslaw Furtok. This is the complete rendition, and it lasts around nine minutes.
Here is an excerpt of the fabulous Boguslaw Furtok playing an excerpt from the last movement of the Cesar Franck Violin Sonata in A. Ewa Warykiewicz is accompanying on piano, and you’ll be seeing more of this great player on the blog in the near future. To see...
Russell Kahle recently e-mailed me this absolutely stunning performance of and excerpt from Carnaval in Venezia by Giovanni Bottesini. This is how to play the bass! Listen to the sparkle and virtuosity of this performance–really amazing.
This is a great video of Monti’s Czardas by double bassist Roman Patkolo (with Jan Jirmasek accompanying on bass) and Maxim Vengerov on violin. Guanaco from the Cellomania blog recently sent me a link to this post.Digging through my archives, I realized that I...
Are you in the mood for some rip-roaring, top-notch bass playing? Then check out this video of double bassist Alper Mufettisoglu playing an extremely virtuosic rendition of Gliere’s Tarantella, the fourth in his series of pieces for the double bass.
