We’ve featured this great tune from L’Orchestre de Contrebasses before, but it’s great to see it in this excellent live rendition. What an excellent ensemble, and what a great example of the varied repertoire available to bass ensembles these days. ...
Corin Long’s sister Vanessa has booked Longslade Community College in Birstall, Leicester for a memorial concert for the late Royal Philharmonic principal bassist, who tragically died in an accident earlier this year. Vanessa writes: The concert will be...
Bass blog contributor Benjy recently sent me a link to this video featuring Rinat Avisar with the Israel Kibbutz Orchestra performing the Concerto Capriccioso by Haïm Permont:...
One of the biggest challenges for a blogger is making useful older content easy to access without becoming an annoying self-promotion machine. I am always struggling with this, and I’ll probably do highlight posts like this every once in a while. ...
Here’s an excellent video of the great double bass performer (and Contrabass Conversations guest) François Rabbath performing the slow movement of Vivaldi’s Concerto in F, Op. 3 No. 9. This was recorded at Ball State University in 2007. What a great...
