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Double Bass Favorite pieces you've played

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kid_squanto

May 5, 2006
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#1
hey all-

not sure if this is the right forum, but I was thinking earlier today of my favorite (orchestral) pieces that I've played. I'd say my top five are...

1. Don Juan
2. Beethoven 8
3. Pines of Rome
4. Brahm's 1
5. Tchaik violin concerto or Tchaik 5

I'm 17, so I haven't had a chance to play a lot of repertoire, but these are some of my favorite pieces that I've played in the past couple of years.

Just curious to see what you other guys have played, and what your favorites are.
 
#2
1. New World Symphony
2. La Forza Del Destino
3. Night on Bald Mountain
4. Strut
5. Russian Saylors dance (always a fun one)
6. Hungarian Dance
7. The Majic Flute
8. Der Freischutz
9. Scheherazade
10. Danse macabre

Right now we are playing Tschaikowsky's Romeo et Juliette and Sinfonische Metamorphosen, haven't performed them yet so they are not in my top 10.
 
#7
In no particular order:

Mendelssohn's Symphony #5 Reformation
Sibelius' Symphony #2
Mussorgsky/Ravel's Pictures at an Exhibition
Brahms' Symphony #4
Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks
Beethoven's Symphonies #5 and #8
Schumann's Symphony #4
Grieg's Holberg Suite
Holst's St. Paul's Suite
Elgar's Enigma Variations
Janacek's Sinfonietta
Mozart's Symphony #35
Tchaikovsky's Symphony #4

These are other works I really like, but have not had an opportunity to perform yet:

Beethoven Symphony #3
Shore's Lord of the Rings Symphony
Mozart's Symphony #25
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade
Barber's The School for Scandal (Overture), Adagio for Strings
 
#11
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Barber Essays 1 and 2
Beethoven 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9 (can't stand 7 for some reason)
Mozart-Linz, Paris, Haffner, Jupiter, 40
Brahms 3rd
Tschaik 4,5,6
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Ravel Tambeau de Couperin
Vaughan Williams-Dives and Lazarus; Tallis Fantasia (both strings only)
Faure-Pelleas and Mellisande
Debussy-La Mer (I played this in 1976 with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and Gunther Schuller's father was in the 2nd violin section; he had played this under Debussy himself; how cool is that!)
 
#14
mcnaire2004 said:
1. New World Symphony
2. La Forza Del Destino
3. Night on Bald Mountain
4. Strut
5. Russian Saylors dance (always a fun one)
6. Hungarian Dance
7. The Majic Flute
8. Der Freischutz
9. Scheherazade
10. Danse macabre

Right now we are playing Tschaikowsky's Romeo et Juliette and Sinfonische Metamorphosen, haven't performed them yet so they are not in my top 10.
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OK I have heard of nearly all of those - but what is "Strut" - #4? :confused:
 
#15
Bruce Lindfield said:
OK I have heard of nearly all of those - but what is "Strut" - #4? :confused:
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It is a piece by the composer Micheal Daugherty. It even has a bass solo (not much of one) but it is a really interesting composition and verry,verry fun to play. The CYS was played it about this time last year. It does not employ any winds, it is purely for string orchestra. I don't know much about. When we were given the piece to play I looked it up and found nothing.
 
#16
I just looked on Google and he has a web site :

Strut : Program Notes
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Strut (1989) for String Orchestra is inspired by the great black American Paul Robeson (1898-1976). Robeson was perhaps the most passionately outspoken advocate of American racial equality in his time. Although trained as a lawyer, Robeson was widely admired for his acting, on stage as Shakespeare's Othello and in films such as "The Emperor Jones" (1932) and "Showboat" (1936), and in concert as a singer of black American spirituals. At the height of his career, in the 1940's, he devoted his energy to the National Negro Congress and labor unions, using his international celebrity to openly criticize the Ku Klux Klan and segregations laws around the world. Fluent in many languages, Robeson believed that the pre-Stalin philosophy of the Soviet Union would improve the condition of all oppressed people. He was kept under close surveillance by J. Edgar Hoover and the F.B.I. because of "subversive" acts like singing Communist songs alongside "Old Man River" in concerts. His passport was revoked from 1950 to 1958, forcing his film and concert career to a virtual standstill. In 1958 he revived his musical activities abroad, but illness forced him into early retirement.

The buoyancy and fearless fiddling of Strut reflects the visionary optimism of the Harlem Renaissance. From 1920 until about 1930, the Harlem Renaissance marked an unprecedented outburst of creative activity in all fields of Afro-American art in which Paul Robeson was a central figure. Imagining a youthful and optimistic Robeson strutting down 125th street in Harlem in the 1920s, I have created various rhythmic motives themes and vibrant syncopations that are woven into a lively and complex rhythmic tapestry.

-- Michael Daugherty


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#19
Weird... I just met Michael Daugherty today. One of the groups I'm playing in now has a concert tonight ending with a clarinet concerto of his called Brooklyn Bridge. He was here for today's rehearsal, and I assume for the concert tonight. It's pretty cool. Lots of clave rhythmic figures

I'll play as long as I'm here:

in no particular order:

Beethoven 5 - All the symphonies are great, but since the bass part to this one is so badass, it's better than any of others.

Mahler 1

Brahms 2

Dvorak 8 & 9

Stokowsky Arrangement of Bach's Toccata in Fugue in D minor

Barber's 2nd Essay - Played this a couple years ago when I was in youth symphony. We made stuff fall off the walls.
Good times.:cool:

Strauss Unter Donner und Blitzen - Gotta love the Polka ;)
 
#20
How about...

Vltava (The Moldau) by Smentana
Symphony No. 6 - Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 3 (Organ) - Saint-Seans
5th Symphony - Beethoven
Most anything by Brahms, especially a violin concerto we did.

Right now, we're doing...

Symphony No. in B minor - Borodin
Prelude to the afternoon of a fawn - Debussy
Concerto for Piano NO 20 - Mozart

I really like the Borodin. Never heard of him before.
 

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