Double bassist Gary Karr gives an admirable performance of Johnson's 'Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass'. The work requires Karr to talk to his audience from a script, while performing increasingly complicated material - with the idea that at some point the musician will 'fail' and the work will come to a grinding halt.
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Gary Karr shares a spooky connection with double bassist Sergey Koussevitzky, in this article from October 2013
The performance of Vaughan Williams’s chamber work was put together remotely, with each bassist recording their part in separate countries
The violinist pairs twelve Stradivari violins with repertoire for a special recording steeped in history
The cellist appears alongside the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra and its music director Stuart Malina
Philharmonia musicians perform one of Finland’s most popular Christmas carols, Jean Sibelius’s Julvisa
Double bassist Théotime Voisin and pianist Maurice van Schoonhoven perform an arrangement of the popular opera overture in a tribute to the bel canto tradition
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