Vanhal Double Bass Concerto - Duo Sweet 17
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.พ. 2025
- Johann Matthias Sperger, for whom this concerto was probably written, composed several duets for bass and viola and for bass and cello. Some of that music was later used in bass concertos. We decided to do it the other way around, and to imagine Johann Matthias going on a concert tour with the Vanhal concerto. Life was hard for musicians back then, and they often had to travel all over Europe, playing for bishops and princes in the hope of landing a job somewhere. So there goes Sperger, unable to afford an orchestra to accompany him on his trip. So he just takes his friend who plays the Amore, and he arranges the concerto as a duo.
Our arrangement is still a work in progress but it's coming along nicely. Here's a peek behind the scenes with two early rehearsals : one in the Brussels' Opera storage room, on a modern bass in viennese tuning, the other one at Rosario in Bever on a Stefan Krattenmacher 5-string viennese violone with gut strings and frets, and a freshly rehaired, very squeaky bow...
The intro music is by Denzil Delaere. We liked it so much that we wanted to contrast the Vanhal with some great music of our own times.
Thanks for watching !
Korneel and Haruko
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La classe !!!
à deux vous êtes capable de faire entendre l'orchestre qui vous accompagne, surtout avec les boîtes blanches qui semble figurer le pupitre de contrebasse ... et avec le boyaux, qu'est-ce que c'est beau !
Bravo, j'applaudi des deux mains et des deux pieds en même temps ...
Alain
Absolutely fantastic playing!!
Wonderful playing, musicianship and concept! Bravi!
Amazing!!! I can´t wait to here the whole concerto!
The whole concerto is now on TH-cam, on the Viennese Tuning Channel...
Bravíssimo!!
Greetings from Brazil!
Bravo!!!
great!!!
Obrigado !
Thanks for the nice comments. The cadenza is our own, based on Kreisler’s “Schön Rosmarin”. We took Quantz’s advice to heart, where he writes about cadenzas for wind instruments: a cadenza you can play in a single breath is often preferable to a long cadenza that adds nothing to the piece. Long cadenzas actually risk destroying the feel and atmosphere of the concerto itself. We like it short and sweet.
Bravi!
`"Damned fuckin`great!!!" THANK YOU!!! (Heinz/ Hobby-double-bass from germany)
Thank you ! We're working on the other two movements and they're coming along very nicely. Soon on TH-cam : Mozart's KV612 :-)
Have grown to love the sound of Viennese bass and baroque instruments in general. Great playing, Curious about cadenza, is it your own?
The cadenza is our own, it’s based on Kreisler’s Schön Rosmarin. J.Quantz advises wind players to limit their cadenzas to what they can play in one single breath, and that’s good advice for string players as well...
Bravo!