MARX / MUSSORGSKY / RAVEL / MARTIN / BRIDGE / etc
If the owl calls again Christianne Stotijn (Mezzo) with Joseph Breinl (piano), Rick Stotijn (double bass), Antoine Tamestit (viola) [ Warner Classics / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn presents an album of songs on the theme of nature and religion. From works by Martin, Ravel and Mussorgsky, to a world premiere by Dutch composer Fant de Kanter, and featuring song texts in Hebrew, Armenian,... |
ALICE TEGNER / GUSTAF NORDQVIST
Sång, vår sång! (Song, our song) Danderyds Vokalensemble, Ida Falk Winland (soprano) Anders Ölund (organ), Stenhammar Quartet, Katarina Lindgren (double bass) [ BIS / CD - released 13/May/2016 ] Born only 20 years apart, Alice Tegnér and Gustaf Nordqvist wrote songs that generations of Swedes have sung and loved deeply. Tegnér's songs for children were published in a series of volumes that found their way into every school and many homes in... |
HANS WERNER HENZE
Henze: Works for Double Bass Daniele Roccato (double bass) / Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, Ludus Gravis Ensemble, Tonino Battista [ Wergo / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "Top-notch recording and performances of rarely heard Henze." MusicWeb |
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. |
NINO ROTA
Symphony No. 3 / Concerto soirée for piano and orchestra / Divertimento concertante for double-bass and orchestra Davide Botto (double-bass) / Barry Douglas (piano) / Filarmonica ’900 del Teatro Regio, Turin / Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 26/Apr/2011 ] "Barry Douglas plays with admirable clarity and fondness, careful not to upset the precisely crafted balance between piano and orchestra... Three very engaging works, then, performed with skill and affection, excellently recorded and with good... |
Double Barrel Blues Band
Both Barrels - In Your Face [ CD ] |
Double Concerto for 2 electric guitars & symphony orchestra / 5th Symphony
Terje Rypdal [ ECM Records / CD - released 22/Jun/2000 ] With Ronni Le Tekro (TNT) & Riga Festival Orchestra |
The Double
Loose In The Air [ Matador Records / CD - released 29/Nov/2005 ] “Noise-metallic clacks and supersonic crackles, crumpling guitars and disappearing vocals sweetly disorders melody, a union that entreats and welcomes rather than confuses and commandeers.” -Village Voice |
DOUBLE VIRGO
EROS IN THE BUNKER (LP) [ Plz Make It Ruins / LP - released 14/Oct/2022 ] Despite seven sprawling digital releases since October 2020, Double Virgo are still as elusive as they are prolific. The London duo (who make up two thirds of Bar Italia) prefer not to talk too much about their loose-limbed, full-hearted grunge songs |
Duncan McTier - double bass, Kathron Sturrock - piano
Sonata (music for the Double Bass by Hertl, Schubert & Hindemith) [ Black Box / CD - released 28/Jan/2002 ] Unusual repertoire for Double Bass |
Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Strathclyde Concertos 7 & 8 / A spell for green corn: The MacDonald dances Duncan McTier (double-bass), Ursula Leveaux (bassoon), James Clark (violin) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] "The demise of Collins Classics - on which label many of the composer's recordings were originally issued - removed from the catalogue a great many valuable discs. It is to the great credit of Naxos they have over the years so assiduously re-released |
Eberhard Weber (electric double bass, keyboards) with Ack van Rooyen (flugelhorn)
Encore [ ECM / CD - released 20/Mar/2015 ] Encore is a companion volume to Résumé the widely-praised solo album issued in 2011. Eberhard Weber returns once more to the many live recordings of his tenure with the Jan Garbarek Group, isolating his bass solos and reworking them into new pieces... |
GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Duetto / Capriccio / Gran Quintetto Elda Laro (piano) & Alessandro Dorella (clarinet) Davide Botto, Davide Ghio (double-bass) / Quintetto d'Archi del Teatro Regio Torino [ Chandos / CD - released 25/Jun/2015 ] Musicians from the Orchestra del Teatro Regio Torino with Elda Laro (piano) here bring up a unique recording of chamber works by Giovanni Bottesini. |
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. |
TRADITIONAL
Lux Emma Ahlberg Ek (five stringed violin), Emilia Amper (nyckelharpa, vocals), Fredrik Gille (percussion), Olle Linder (double bass, vocals), Bridget Mar [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Nov/2016 ] In 2012, Emilia Amper's solo début disc Trollfågeln ('The Magic Bird', BIS-2013) was a revelation. Not only to those who had never before heard the silvery sound of the nyckelharpa ('keyed fiddle'), but also for the way Emilia on it combined her... |
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 |
EVAN PARKER
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Toward the Margins Evan Parker (soprano saxophone) / Barry Guy (double-bass) / Paul Lytton (percussion, live-electronics) / Philipp Wachsmann (violin, viola, live elect) [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Sep/2008 ] British saxophonist Evan Parker was one of the first musicians to record for ECM, appearing on the label's fifth album in 1970 as a member of the Music Improvisation Company |
GEORGE ENESCU
Enescu: Piano Quintet in D major / Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, Op. 11 (arr. piano & string quintet) Fine Arts Quartet, Alexander Bickard (double bass), Gisele Witkowski & Fabio Witkowski (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] It was in Paris just before the end of the 19th century that George Enescu began to compose prolifically, but it is only in recent years that a number of these scores have emerged. The Piano Quintet in D major is one such work, lost for decades, but... |
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. |
HOFFMEISTER / SPERGER / VANHAL / MOZART:
Travels With Goliath Grigory Krotenko (double bass), Barocco Concertato [ Rubicon Classics / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] Josef Kämpfer (1735-88?) A cavalry officer in the Hungarian army, self - taught double bass virtuoso and double bass designer led a peripatetic life moving through musical circles at the highest levels in Austria, Germany, Paris, London and St... |