An interesting Podcast

[kontrabass]

For all of our German speakers (I don't know how many there are here!), I found an interesting and bass-oriented podcast. The subject of the podcast is a fellow named Friedrich Witt, who also narrates. He was apparently Solokontrabass of the Berliner Philharmoniker in the early days of Herbert von Karajan and pre-Rainer Zepperitz.
It pertains mostly to his history as a bassist as well as arbitrary musings and interesting events in his 40 years in the orchestra.

The podcasts are available at his website and, of course, on itunes. They are in German, but I can offer a summation of each episode, if necessary. http://www.friedrich-witt.de

Enjoy,
Alex

[edvon]

Hi Alex,
the podcast from Friedrich Witt is very informative a great insight into the bass section of a great orchestra... maybe he will find someone to translate and have it narrated in English.
Another interesting doulbe bass related cast (in English) is from Peter A Jones from the Teneriffe Symphony Orchestra at http://doublebasscast.org/
Ed

[kontrabass]

That is a very, very useful podcast.

Thanks edvon.

Alex

[JimmyM]

It's not as good as the podcast I've been working on. I'm going to have parody songs and filthy porno clips and we're going to make fun of podcasts like this one and it's going to be funny as hell.