Contrabass you like

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Any orchestral works/recordings with a nice contrabass part you like or recommend? Thanks ladies and gents.

[Peter Power Pop]

The bass drum in the Seattle Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz recording of David Diamond's Symphony No. 2 goes incredibly low, and it's fabulous. It's in the secondary theme of the first movement, which begins at 6:08. The bass drum comes in when the theme gets going (the bass drum thwacks begin at 6:33). On a good hi-fi it sounds amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/v/O0L2sWcL9-Q

[Peter Power Pop]

The organ at the end of Holst's "Saturn" in the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Charles Dutoit recording is unbelievably wonderful. You can hear it from 8:04 onwards.

https://www.youtube.com/v/v7hFdGnwH1E

[KevinP]

Any orchestral works/recordings with a nice bass part you like or recommend? Thanks ladies and gents.

Are you asking about the contrabass instrument (sometimes called 'bass') or just generally the bass register?

[Peter Power Pop]

Are you asking about the contrabass instrument (sometimes called 'bass') or just generally the bass register?

I took it to mean the low-end of the frequency spectrum.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Are you asking about the contrabass instrument (sometimes called 'bass') or just generally the bass register?

Contrabass please. Thank you for the question, and I edited my question accordingly.

I took it to mean the low-end of the frequency spectrum.

The videos look very interesting. I will check them out tomorrow!

[Peter Power Pop]

As far as contrabass goes, I like the "Vivo" movement of Stravinsky's Pulcinella which features a very frisky double-bass:

https://www.youtube.com/v/r9rRqufXM74

[relm1]

I like to see them earn their pay with the millions of notes at the end of Part 1 of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

https://youtu.be/EkwqPJZe8ms?t=913

[Cato]

There is a section in the slow movement of Prokofiev's Third Symphony which features the Contrabass section: I believe they play into the treble clef.

[Wanderer]

The Skalkottas Contrabass Concerto.

[Peter Power Pop]

Dragonetti: Double-Bass Concerto (Gary Karr, contrabass; Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Uros Lajovic)

https://www.youtube.com/v/ABDReZi-2Wg

[Cato]

The famous conductor Serge Koussevitzky played the Contrabass and composed a concerto for the instrument:



https://www.youtube.com/v/Wff6EHafJoo

[pjme]

This is a classic, of course:

https://www.youtube.com/v/RXoJJbtmO9M

Fun:

https://www.youtube.com/v/tjiDzScO1aU

https://www.youtube.com/v/PGZOCrWVcTs

Also

https://www.youtube.com/v/2OjCzNeFuBo

https://www.youtube.com/v/IBCh1tLfCtI

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

As far as contrabass goes, I like the "Vivo" movement of Stravinsky's Pulcinella which features a very frisky double-bass:

https://www.youtube.com/v/r9rRqufXM74

Yes sounds nice. I have the album and I like it a lot.

I like to see them earn their pay with the millions of notes at the end of Part 1 of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

https://youtu.be/EkwqPJZe8ms?t=913

Sounds very good. I like the  recordings by Dorati, Lenny, etc.

[Spotted Horses]

I like the exposed entrance of the contrabasses in the trio of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Scherzo.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

The bass drum in the Seattle Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz recording of David Diamond's Symphony No. 2 goes incredibly low, and it's fabulous. It's in the secondary theme of the first movement, which begins at 6:08. The bass drum comes in when the theme gets going (the bass drum thwacks begin at 6:33). On a good hi-fi it sounds amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/v/O0L2sWcL9-Q

Nice symphony by the excellent composer. Yes the part in question sounds dynamic!


:)quote author=Cato link=topic=32092.msg1481891#msg1481891 date=1668953622]
The famous conductor Serge Koussevitzky played the Contrabass and composed a concerto for the instrument:



https://www.youtube.com/v/Wff6EHafJoo
[/quote]

Wow, impeccable intonation. Nice composition too.

Dragonetti: Double-Bass Concerto (Gary Karr, contrabass; Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin / Uros Lajovic)

https://www.youtube.com/v/ABDReZi-2Wg

Interesting, totally doublebass-centered, music! Nice performance.

[Peter Power Pop]

Nice symphony by the excellent composer. Yes the part in question sounds dynamic!


:)quote author=Cato link=topic=32092.msg1481891#msg1481891 date=1668953622]
The famous conductor Serge Koussevitzky played the Contrabass and composed a concerto for the instrument:



https://www.youtube.com/v/Wff6EHafJoo


Wow, impeccable intonation. Nice composition too.


Interesting, totally doublebass-centered, music! Nice performance.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

This is a classic, of course:

https://www.youtube.com/v/RXoJJbtmO9M

Fun:

https://www.youtube.com/v/tjiDzScO1aU

https://www.youtube.com/v/PGZOCrWVcTs

Also

https://www.youtube.com/v/2OjCzNeFuBo

https://www.youtube.com/v/IBCh1tLfCtI

The tone of basses for the Britten and the Elephant are woody and gorgeous. The Berio sounds interesting. The intro sounds like modern jazz. The Martinsson is an excellent composition. I like it. I will look for a recording.

[Roasted Swan]

Just received this new release - no idea what the piece is like!



UPDATE:  TREMENDOUS disc - the doublebass concerto is good and very well-played but its the symphony that is the "main feature" here

[Florestan]

Google "Bottesini Naxos".