Contrabasso Concertante

Ödön Racz, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Giovanni Bottesini, Astor Piazzolla, Nino Rota - My Double Bass (2019)

Ödön Racz, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Giovanni Bottesini, Astor Piazzolla, Nino Rota - My Double Bass (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 233 MB | Cover | 51:15 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 117 MB
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

„Ödön Rácz ist ein grandioser Musiker, für den Virtuosität niemals Selbstzweck ist. Besonders in den Kadenzen entfaltet er die ganze Klangmacht des Kontrabasses.” WDR Das neueste Album „My Double Bass“ von Ödön Racz, das am 25. Januar 2019 erscheint, begeistert mit den Stärken und der Vielseitigkeit des Instruments und entführt die Hörer auf eine musikalische Reise von Italien nach Lateinamerika und wieder zurück. Ausgangspunkt der Reise ist das „Gran Duo
concertante“ des italienischen Kontabassisten und Komponisten Giovanni Bottesini. Begleitet wird Racz von Noah Bendix-Balgley, dem Konzertmeister der Berliner Philharmoniker. Mit Bendix-Balgley verbindet Rácz eine enge Zusammenarbeit; beide Musiker haben sich im Philharmonix-Ensemble kennengelernt. Fortgesetzt wird die Reise mit dem „Le Grand Tango“ des argentinischen Begründers des Tango Nuevo, Astor Piazzolla.

Ödön Rácz - My Double Bass (2019) [Official Digital Download]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Jan. 25, 2019
Ödön Rácz - My Double Bass (2019) [Official Digital Download]

Ödön Rácz - My Double Bass (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 51:11 minutes | 527 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

Ödön Rácz is a fourth generation contrabassist. Great grandfather and grandfather played in ensembles, his father in an orchestra. The son, born in Budapest in 1981, also chose the same path. He has been a member of Vienna’s State Opera orchestra since 2004 and as such, the successor to his prominent teacher Alois Posch. Rácz studied the orchestral literature with him and Posch is still today his most important role model as an orchestra musician. His idol as a solo musician is also a former Vienna Philharmonic member Ludwig Streicher, whose soloist tracks Rácz follows on this recording. For Streicher, the most prominent contrabassist of his time, the concerti from Vanhal, Dittersdorf and Bottesini were also his declared favourites.
Elina Vähälä & Niek De Groot - Duos for Violin & Double Bass (2018)

Elina Vähälä & Niek De Groot - Duos for Violin & Double Bass (2018)
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 261 MB
Label: audite Musikproduktion | Tracks: 09 | Time: 63:19 min

For this recording, Finnish violinist Elina Vähälä and Dutch double bass player Niek de Groot have chosen and performed seven pieces. When a violin and a double bass perform chamber music together, it is a case of two instruments encountering each other when normally they are poles apart and play together only alongside additional parts and colours.