Avishai Cohen (trumpet) Yonathan Avishai (piano), Barak Mori (double bass), Ziv Ravitz (drums)
Avishai Cohen - Naked Truth [ ECM / CD - released 25/Feb/2021 ] There is a searching, yearning quality to Naked Truth, and a raw beauty and vulnerability in Avishai Cohen's trumpet sound on his most improvisational ECM recording to date. Very much music-of-the-moment, found and shaped in the course of a... |
Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonathan Avishai (piano), Barak Mori (double bass), Ziv Ravitz (drums)
Naked Truth (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Feb/2021 ] There is a searching, yearning quality to Naked Truth, and a raw beauty and vulnerability in Avishai Cohen's trumpet sound on his most improvisational ECM recording to date. Very much music-of-the-moment, found and shaped in the course of a... |
DEBUSSY / DUTILLEUX / SCHUBERT / BRITTEN / MOZART / BARTOK / etc
Belcea Quartet - The Complete Warner Classics Edition Belcea Quartet, with Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Leon Bosch (double bass) [ Warner Classics / 11 CD Box Set - released 17/Mar/2023 ] One of today's most highly respected string quartets, the Belcea were established in 1994 at the Royal College of Music in London and studied with the Chilingirian, the Amadeus, and later the Alban Berg quartets. |
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) / Ben Tunnicliffe (double bass), Archie Churchill-Moss (acoustic guitar), Patrick Rimes (fiddle), Patrick Rimes (bagpipes)
Bryn Terfel - Sea Songs [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 26/Apr/2024 ] Bryn Terfel's first studio album in over five years featuring wildly romantic "Sea Songs". Shanties and songs about the sea and seafaring in a folky guise such as "Wellerman", "Bold Riley", "Drunken Sailor" or "Sloop John B", with guests such as... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Coffee & Classical Idil Biret (piano), Jenö Jandó (piano), Maria Lambros (viola), Soyeon Kate Lee (piano), Alon Goldstein (piano), Rachel Calin (double bass), Benjamin F [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Nov/2019 ] Enjoy this full-flavoured selection of music whilst sipping on a coffee from your favourite cup. Let our blended brew of aural aromas bring you down to earth from the days highs, and experience how our choice of works gives grounds for escape from... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Chamber Music - Piano Quartet, Op. 16 / Minuets and Dances Indiana University Wind Ensemble, Janette Fishell (organ), Sofia Kim (violin), Susie Kroh (violin), Aleck Belcher (double bass), etc [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/May/2020 ] In his first decade in Vienna, Beethoven seems to have been preoccupied with music for wind instruments. The best-known example is his Quintet in E flat major, Op. 16, which he arranged at the same time for piano quartet. |
Keith Jarrett (piano) / Charlie Haden (double bass)
Last Dance (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 2/Oct/2014 ] Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden broaden the scope of their duo project to showcase jazz classics like Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight" and Bud Powell's spritely "Dance Of The Infidels". Love songs, however, are to the fore in this selection, with... |
ALFVEN / BACH / JENKINS / PURCELL / RAMEAU / SCARLATTI / etc
Martin Fröst - Night Passages Martin Fröst (clarinet), Sebastien Dube (double bass), Roland Pöntinen (piano) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/May/2022 ] Martin Fröst's latest album for Sony Classical brings the extraordinary alchemy of a specially formed ensemble to the public with highly original arrangements for the first time on record. |
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble [ Epic Records / 2 CD - released 29/Jan/2008 ] 'The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan' features his 33 best songs, all digitally re-mastered. These are the SRV selections you need!! |
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
In Step [ Legacy / Epic Records / CD - released 10/Sep/1999 ] Originally released in 1989, this triumphant farewell album from the late great S.R.V. has been digitally re-mastered and includes previously unreleased bonus tracks. |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 5 (Incls Barbar, the little Elephant) Francois Mouzaya (narrator), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Laurent Lefevre (bassoon), Stephane Logerot (double bass), Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2000 ] "The narrators are two gifted children, the pianist Alezandre Tharaud, whose acute playing has sparked the series." Turok's Choice |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: "Trout" Quintet / Waltzes / Ländler Thymos Quartet, with Christoph Eschenbach, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (pianos) & Yann Dubost (double bass) [ Avie / CD - released 15/May/2020 ] "there's no rigid ensemble, either; the mood is convivial, like conversing friends who occasionally interrupt each other. Eschenbach's solo moments have memorable rhetorical swagger…I couldn't stop smiling." BBC Music August 2020 Chamber Choice |
YO-YO MA / STUART DUNCAN / EDGAR MEYER / CHRIS THILE
Not Our First Goat Rodeo Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Stuart Duncan (violin), Edgar Meyer (double bass), Chris Thile (mandolin) [ Sony Classical / CD - released 19/Jun/2020 ] The music featured in this stunning album is so complex to pull off that the group likens it to a goat rodeo - an aviation term for a situation in which 100 things need to go right to avoid disaster |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quartets, Trout Quintet & String Quintet Alban Berg Quartet, Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano), Georg Hörtnagel (double bass) [ Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 17/Mar/2023 ] The Alban Berg Quartett approach Schubert with classical discipline while vividly conveying the mysterious fervent power that is so instantaneously unique in the composer's works. They capture the quintessentially Viennese spirit of Schubert, as... |
FRANJZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Trout Quintet Andras Schiff (piano) / Members of the Hagen Quartet, with Alois Posch, double bass [ Decca / CD - released 25/May/1984 ] Recorded: Vienna 1983 |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: We Got Rhythm - A Gershwin Songbook Andre Previn (piano), David Finck (double bass) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 12/Mar/1998 ] George Gershwin was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants to the United States. Born in Brooklyn on 26 September 1898, he had only a rudimentary musical education, but his talent was such that he rose from humble beginnings as a Tin Pan Alley... |
GERSHWIN / MOZART / POULENC / SHOSTAKOVICH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Andre Previn Andre Previn (piano) with David Finck (double bass) / Vienna Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Pittsburg Symphony [ Philips / Sony / Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "It's remarkable how many pop and especially jazz musicians had classical training, but far rarer for a credible classical musician to have emerged from the ranks of pop. Andre Previn" |
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Penderecki: Hommage a Penderecki Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) Lambert Orkis (piano) Roman Patkolo (double bass) / London Symphony Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] In these intensely emotional performances, Mutter and Orkis respond to rapt audiences with playing of exceptional intimacy |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Women Of Note: A Century Of Australian Composers - Vol. 2 Asmira Woodward-Page (violin) Scott Davie (piano) Kees Boersma (double bass) ACO Collective / Sydney Symphony / Melbourne Symphony / etc [ ABC Classics / 2 CD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] This 2CD album celebrates the music from pioneers of Australia's musical heritage: Margaret Sutherland, Miriam Hyde, Dulcie Holland, and introducing Linda Phillips. |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Six String Sonatas Elizabeth Wallfisch, Marshall Marcus (violins) Richard Tunnicliffe (cello) Chi-Chi Nwanoku (double bass) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 17/Sep/2005 ] 'These wonderful works are best heard in their original quartet version' (Gramophone) |
EDUARD TUBIN
Tubin: Double Bass Concerto / Violin Concerto No. 2 / etc Hakan Ehren (double bass) Gustavo Garcia (violin) / Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jan/1987 ] Tubin was born in Torila, Tartu County, Governorate of Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire. Both his parents were music lovers, and his father played trombone in the village band. |
ROSSINI / HOFFMEISTER
Rossini / Hoffmeister: Quartets with Double Bass, Vol. 2 Minna Pensola (violin I), Antti Tikkanen (violin II / (viola), Tuomas Lehto (cello), Niek de Groot (double bass) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/May/2019 ] This second and last volume completes two different sets of string quartets: the four so-called Solo Quartets by Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Gioachino Rossini's six String Sonatas (or Sonate a quattro). Both sets differ from the 'normal'... |
FOLEY / PERKINSON / GERSHWIN / STILL / PRICE / COLERIDGE-TAYLOR / DVORAK
Roots Randall Goosby (violin), Zhu Wang (piano), Xavier Dubois Foley (double bass) [ Decca / CD - released 30/Jul/2021 ] "This is selfless, stylish playing which - paradoxically - ends up by projecting the personalities of both artists with even more freshness and warmth." Gramophone Editor's Choice August 2021 |
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
The Sky Is Crying [ Epic / CD - released 17/Apr/2000 ] |
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble (LP) [ Epic Records / 2 LP - released 29/Jan/2008 ] |
Double Exposure
Ten Percent (LP) [ ADA / BMG / LP - released 10/Jun/2022 ] Originally released in 1976 on the Salsoul label, Ten Percent is the debut studio album recorded by Philadelphia-based disco group Double Exposure. The album features the title track, which peaked at #2 on the Hot Dance chart, #54 on the Billboard... |
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
Soul To Soul (Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 15/Sep/2023 ] Stevie Ray Vaughan's third studio album Soul To Soul was released in 1985, just two years after his massive debut Texas Flood. Moving more into a soulful R&B-tinged blues sound, Stevie included two new band members on keyboard and saxophone for Soul... |
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Soul To Soul (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 11/Oct/2012 ] Stevie Ray Vaughan's third studio album Soul To Soul was released in 1985, just two years after his massive debut Texas Flood. Moving more into a soulful R&B-tinged blues sound, Stevie included two new band members on keyboard and saxophone for Soul... |
Aaron Parks (piano), Ben Street (double bass), Billy Hart (drums)
Find the Way [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] For the second ECM album by Aaron Parks - following the solo release Aborescence, which JazzTimes praised as "expansive, impressionistic… like a vision quest" - the prize-winning pianist has convened a trio featuring bassist Ben Street and drummer... |
Anat Fort (piano) with Gary Wang (double-bass) & Roland Schneider (drums)
A Long Story [ ECM / CD - released 29/Jan/2007 ] "Anat Fort has a charming way of dispensing pastoralism and an insightful way of lining that pastoralism with depth", wrote Jim Macnie, in the Village Voice, adding that "her trio has the kind of poise that lets her move from terra firma to the... |
Anders Jormin (double-bass) with Robin Rydqvist trumpet (flugelhorn) & Krister Petersson (french horn)
Ad Lucem [ ECM / CD - released 19/Mar/2012 ] Jormin, hailed by Down Beat as "a treasure everything a bassist should be", has excelled on numerous ECM recordings with Bobo Stenson, Charles Lloyd, Don Cherry, and Tomasz Stanko. Solo pieces and compositions for brass quartet feature on"Xieyi",... |
Anders Jormin (double-bass) with Lena Willemark (voice, fiddle and viola) Karin Nakagawa (25-string koto)
Trees Of Light [ ECM / CD - released 20/Mar/2015 ] Anders Jormin's new Swedish-Japanese project returns the highly distinctive voice and fiddle of Lena Willemark to ECM (her first appearance on the label in more than a decade), and introduces koto player Karin Nakagawa. In their collaborative music... |
LEONARDO BALADA
Caprichos Nos. 2, 3 & 4 Andrés Cárdenes (solo violin) / Jeffrey Turner (double bass) / Pittsburgh Sinfonietta / Lawrence Loh [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 13/Mar/2011 ] "A contemporary Spanish voice that ably blends modernity and the past without compromise.... If proof were required that significant Spanish, post-Rodrigo compositional life exists, and that it is influenced by, though not obsessed with Spain's past,... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Chamber Music For Horns, Winds And Strings Jozsef Balogh (clarinet), Ildiko Hegyi (violin), Jeno Kevehazi (horn), Gyozo Mathe (viola), Peter Szabo (cello), Istvan Toth (double bass), Jozsef Vaj [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/1995 ] "These talented Hungarian players offer a fluent, responsive account of the Septet that highlights the music's intimate chamber character...This excellent, value-for-money Naxos disc also offers an elegant, well-turned performance of the Quintet." |
BOTTESINI
Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra in F# Minor / Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra in B Minor / etc Boguslaw Furtok, Johannes Staehle (double bass) / Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt / Stephan Tetzlaff [ CPO / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] Dubbed by some of his contemporaries as the 'Paganini of the Double Bass', Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1899) created some of the finest compositions ever written for the instrument. Furtok is the principal bassist for the Frankfurt Radio Symphony... |
Stefano Bollani (piano) with Jesper Bodilsen (double-bass) & Morten Lund (drums)
Stone in the Water [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] "A lovely document by an exemplary trio." Michael J. West, Jazz Times |
JORIS ROELOFS
Roelofs: Rope Dance Bram van Sambeek, bassoon; Joris Roelofs, bass clarinet and clarinet; Bram de Looze, piano; Clemens van der Feen, double bass; Martijn Vink, drums [ BIS / CD - released 7/May/2021 ] The award-winning Dutch composer and bass clarinet player Joris Roelofs is also currently working on a PhD dissertation on Friedrich Nietzsche, improvisation and the notion of freedom. On the album Rope Dance he is able to combine all of this, in a... |
VIVALDI
Suonata a quattro al Santo Sepolcro / In furore iustissimae irae / Concerto a quattro, RV 129 'Madrigalesco' / etc. Catherine Bott (soprano) / The Purcell Quartet with Stephen Preston (flute) Jane Rogers (viola) and Cecelia Bruggemeyer (double-bass) [ Chandos Chaconne Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2004 ] 'Catherine Bott shows there's more Vivaldi beyond the Gloria' - Classic CD |
ANDRE CAPLET
Le Miroir De Jesus Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Anne Bassand (harp), Marc-Antoine Bonanomi (double bass) [ Mirare / CD - released 11/Mar/2013 ] "The instrumentalists are refinement and rarefaction personified, and the women of the Ensemble Vocal Lausanne sound thoroughly angelic." (International Record Review) |
DITTERSDORF / VANHAL
Double Bass Concertos Chi-Chi Nwanoku (double bass) / Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Paul Goodwin [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2000 ] 'An elegant performance. Beautifully played and phrased by Nwanoku, who reveals the lyrical potential of the solo bass' (The Strad) |