Pēteris Vasks - Bass trip

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I stumbled across this this morning. An interesting piece i thought by Peteris Vasks. I'd been listening to his work for a while as ive been expanding my listening into 21st century composers from my usual Beethoven, Brahms, Strauss etc etc. And I'd wanted to listen to stuff that was a bit more Sonic-ally pushed.

Anyway a solo double bass piece.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk3dSmx5lco"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk3dSmx5lco[/url]

Ill have to listen to it some more but i found it fascinating.

Any other 21st century composers who you enjoy? doesn't have to have any thing to do with double bass. Ive been listening to Peteris Vasks and Esa-Pekka Salonen a lot lately.

Also any good solo double bass pieces apart from the usual Bottesini, koussevitzky, vanhal and dittersdorf etc?

[ubassman]

Some really interesting textures - how does he play 3 ( 4) note chords like that ? !!

Really into classically trained Lars Danielsson - came across this version of Suffering ( originally composed and played on DB but played here by the man himself on Cello ).

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE0Avd0uV1g"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE0Avd0uV1g[/url]

[fatgoogle]

Very cool, im not familiar with the original tune but sounds very good.

Came across this today as well.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHE1VQfmvvQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHE1VQfmvvQ[/url]

The double bass isnt very prominent at times.

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[url="http://www.silviodallatorre.com/index.php?language=&hauptrubrik=media&ebene=2&thema=303&PHPSESSID=27ba5747b8859b0aa41fecdd4c5435a1"]http://www.silviodallatorre.com/index.php?language=&hauptrubrik=media&ebene=2&thema=303&PHPSESSID=27ba5747b8859b0aa41fecdd4c5435a1[/url]

Some older pieces here by students but they translate across very well to bass i thought. And brilliant playing.