The electric bass in classical music

[Barking Spiders]

https://bassmagazine.com/artists/thomas-fiorini-and-robert-groslot-announce-concerto-for-bass-guitar-and-orchestra

 

Dunno if I'm behind here and someone else may have posted  but whaddya think?

[BassTractor]

Thanks for posting!

Don't know what I think yet as I haven't heard the piece itself, but I'll be sure to try and find it.

This may well be the first concerto for bass and orchestra, but I think it needs to be said, which they did not, that using the bass in classical music has been done at the very least since the 60s.
Several of my composition teachers had used the bass in their work back then, but also: some of Zappa's work compositionally links more to classical than to pop and rock.
The same thing goes for many other artists - for example Art Zoyd.

Edited April 6, 2022 by BassTractor

[Owen]

Whenever I have played a fretted bass in an orchestral setting, the intonation has been interesting. An orchestra will intonate within itself. Frets don't do that. 

[itu]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_Porra

[ambient]

Thanks for sharing this, I’ll listen to it later.

 

I love hearing bass played outside of its regular setting.

 

John Patitucci composed a beautiful piece for 6 string bass and strings a few years ago.