This video of the Van Goëns Scherzo with Julien Mathias on double bass and Michiko Ishii piano is worth checking out. It unfortunately has about 30 seconds of wildly unstable camera phone gyrations, but the video quality is fine once the piece actually starts. I...
How quickly time flies! It feels like I just started this blog, and it is hard to wrap my head around the fact that I have pushed that ‘publish’ button one thousand times (and many, many more times than that if you count edits, rewrites, and the like). Think about...
This video is a little grainy and slightly out of sync, but it features great bass playing and allows for folks who are unfamiliar with the Hoffmeister Concerto No. 1 to give it a listen. Carmine Laino plays the double bass with Pierfrancesco Borrelli accompanying...
This is a portal to all of the double bass resources listed on this blog. There is a lot of information on this blog (as well as a lot of MP3 and PDF downloads), and clicking around will lead to even more information than is listed here. This should get you started,...
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...
