Classic FM

Double bassist plays Bach’s Suite No.1 for solo cello – and it sounds utterly glorious

This musician realised that with the right bow, the Bach Cello Suite No.1 could come to life in a wonderful way on the double bass... Since Bach composed his Cello Suites in the early 1700s, they have ...
Jazz

Renaud Garcia-Fons: Beyond The Double Bass

The double bass. Everyone knows the double bass—it goes "boom, boom, boom." Sometimes, to paraphrase Sophia Loren, it goes "boom, boody, boom." In the hands of a virtuoso it does so much more than ...
Jazz

Nils Davidsen: Noget at glæde sig til: Solo Outburst In Various Frames Part I

Now and then a heavy instrument with low and deep resonance can sound very light; now and then a series of freely combined tones can nonetheless have a strong melodic feel; and now and then very ...
The New Yorker

A Double Bass Says “Uncle”—Recitals Sans Casualties—This Symphonic Jass Age

ALMOST all of the orchestra conductors were at one time solo instrumentalists, but most of them have put their virtuoso careers behind them. Mr. Mengelberg occasionally directs from a ...