Help with solo

[K-townbasso]

Hello everyone, its been a while since i posted here, but it seems that I have a bit of a quandry.
I have begun as of this fall taking classical upright lessons (finally)
after a period of just bs'ing it, and got up the guts to do a hard solo this year for NYSSMA (the school music solo festival in new york state), in fact it is a level 6, the highest level of difficulty. I have an excellent teacher, and dont really need tips on playing it, but I was wondering if anyone knew of a recording of the solo, and where to procure such a recording. The solo is out of the Schirmer's library of musical classics book "Vivaldi, 6 sonatas for double bass and piano" and I am doing the 3rd Sonata. If no such recording exists, and you know this for sure, let me know then too so I don't waste further time on a fruitless endevor. Thanks alot guys, I have a recording for the solo that im doing on tuba and that helped me immensely so if i can find one of the bass solo that should also help me a bunch, or so i hope. thanks alot!

[Chrix]

Unless I'm mistaken, look for recordings of those done by 'cello. Those sonatas were originally written for the 'cello. But nonetheless, those are difficult recordings to find. Good luck!

[BGreaney]

Ed Barker has a recordng of Vivaldi No. 3. he plays it an octave higher than written and uses some nifty ornamentation. it's a very good recording. The CD also has the Hindemith Sonata and the Schubert Arpeggione Sonata. You could probably find it on towerrecords.com or something. I doubt many places will have it in their stores. You also don't need a bass recording to get some good ideas. any recording by a good cellist or bassist will prove to be very helpful.