EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA
Rautavaara: 12 Concertos (Collector's Edition) Elmar Oliveira (violin) Marko Ylönen (cello) Esko Laine (double bass) Reija Bister, Marielle Nordmann (harp) Patrick Gallois (flute) [ Ondine / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2009 ] This first-ever edition of Einojuhani Rautavaara's complete twelve concertos (written and recorded to this date) follows on the great success of the release of his eight symphonies, in a special box set. |
VARIOUS
1291 Samuel Blaser (trombone), Daniel Humair (drums), Heiri Känzig (double bass) [ Outnote Records / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Three generations of top Swiss jazz musicians from three different parts of the country, Daniel Humair, Samuel Blaser and Heiri Känzig, form a new trio that promises to stimulate the interest of both music lovers and curious listeners. |
GIOVANNI PLATTI
6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 3 Paul Wahlberg (flute) / Knut Erik Sundquist (double bass) / Hans Knut Sveen (clavichord) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jun/2007 ] "These sonatas by Platti fully deserve to be played on the concert platform and one can only be grateful that they have been recorded by these artists." (MusicWeb July 2007) |
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",... |
RAUTAVAARA
Angel of Dusk: Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra / Symphony No 2 / Pelimannit (Fiddlers) Esko Laine (double-bass) Tapiola Sinfonietta / Jean-Jacques Kantorow [ BIS / CD - released 1/Aug/2006 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone |
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... |
J. S. BACH
Bach Trios Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Chris Thile (mandolin), Edgar Meyer (double bass) [ Nonesuch / CD - released 20/Jul/2017 ] "Thile and Meyer, with their backgrounds in bluegrass and American roots music, bring an appealing swing and spontaneity to the Bach…Ma draws a glorious palette of sounds from his cello, which sings and weeps and whispers" Five Stars BBC Music |
BYSTROM / TUBIN / NORDIN / MALMLOF-FORSSLING
Back to StockHome - works for double bass Rick Stotijn (double bass) / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra [ BIS SACD / CD - released 2/Jul/2021 ] "[The Tubin] is a thriller, well worth hearing and a fine vehicle for Stotijn's ability to haul his instrument out of the cellar but also to invest even its lower registers with lyricism and some degree of tonal brightness." Gramophone |
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. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 5, "Emperor" (arr. for piano and string quintet) Hanna Shybayeva (piano) / Animato String Quartet, with Bas Vliegenthart (double bass) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Ignaz Lachner's superb arrangements of Mozart's piano concertos are well known, but his brother Vinzenz Lachner's arrangements of Beethoven's concertos are a rarity, though equally as valuable. |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Transcriptions Hanna Shybayeva (piano), Animato Quartet, Bas Vliegenthart (double bass) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] The first volume (8.551400) with Vinzenz Lachner's arrangements of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concertos for piano and string quintet already showed that this would be quite a special complete recording of Beethoven's piano concertos-and not just... |
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. |
Maya Homburger, baroque violin, Barry Guy, double-bass
Biber - Annunciation / Barry Guy - Celebration, Immeasurable Sky, Ceremanoy, etc [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] "Ceremony" explores the field of tension between old and new music, and between composition and improvisation |
Double Barrel Blues Band
Both Barrels - In Your Face [ CD ] |
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... |
SAMUEL ADLER
Cantos, Close Encounters & Five Snapshots David Fulmer (violin), Randolph Kelly (viola), Amir Eldan (cello), Kurt Muroki (double bass), Ricardo Iznaola (guitar), June Han (harp) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Apr/2013 ] The winner of many prestigious awards for composition, Samuel Adler is also Professor emeritus at the Eastman School of Music. |
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) |
BOTTESINI
Capriccio di Bravura Rick Stotijn (double bass) / Amserdam Sinfonietta [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] |
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,... |