Hints and tips:
...I looked at it and thought the double bass seemed a bit big. My hands felt too large for the violin, and the viola seemed a bit too similar to the violin. So there was only cello left.”...
...Davóne Tines, always a charismatic and versatile bass-baritone, brought an intense solemnity and gravitas to the role of Jesus....
...The new work uses the nearly same instrumentation as Feldman’s piece — viola, celesta (with piano), percussion and choir....
...by plucked bass cavorting with Maneri’s urgently bowed viola....
...Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green proudly launched the “Ode to Joy” and the newly formed Chineke! Voices did their utmost to raise the roof....
...Among them is Gina Viola, a progressive activist who is running for mayor....
...The joke is that there is no viola — nor any string instrument smaller than Mathieu Verkaeren’s double-bass — anywhere on the album....
...The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin has recorded this music before, but its performances always feel spontaneous, a touch lighter on their feet than previously (the double bass is sparingly used), a model...
...Playing the eponymous role in this deferential screen adaptation of August Wilson’s stage play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Viola Davis is phenomenal, all scalding side-eye and emasculating disdain....
...Contributions from the other musicians, including Lauren MacColl on violin and viola and Mikey Owers on a range of brass instruments — notably an underwash of bass trombone — betray no hint of being patched...
...A pulse emerges some two minutes in, King adds backbeats to a throbbing groove and then bass, cello and sax join one by one....
...The three musicians entwine and react on “Bitter Love Song” and “Carol” and on “The Return” Surman’s bass clarinet ruminates slowly in acres of space....
...The set finishes with a gorgeous, viola-enhanced reading of Leonard Bernstein’s “Some Other Time”....
...Here they were brought confidently to life by a sparse double bass and drum rhythm section — both of college student age — and the equally youthful string quartet StringTing....
...The cellos and bass stay put (inevitably) but violins and violas mill about with cheery complaisance, dodging the dancers and adding to the party atmosphere....
...Lewis, Heathrow-bound, and perhaps reluctant to be weighed down with stodge for several airborne hours, chooses the sea bass....
...He alternated between piano and electronics, accompanied at various stages by a chamber ensemble (violins, viola and cellos) and soprano Grace Davidson....
..., various kinds of percussion, violin and viola, pianos and prepared keyboards, marimbas and flapambas....
...“We missed the place, our daughters are both in Europe [in music], and the access to musical experience here is incredible, including the privilege of playing my viola occasionally with the Berlin Phil,...
...The Californian was in town in the wake of the release of her new album, her fourth, Have You in My Wilderness; she played with a compact band — upright electric bass, drums and a viola player....
...Bass clarinet beefed up double bass, viola and sax were astutely blended and the front line riffed in rhythm and responded to each other’s calls....
...Maketa taught himself to play the viola and made his first double bass in 1998....
...Discussing the allegorical dialogue between Jesus (bass) and the Soul (soprano) in an early cantata, he explains how Bach juxtaposes the “archaic” viola da gamba with the “modern” oboe and basso continuo...
...Brook’s fine bass-baritone was a perfect foil in the duets, not least the “Dialogue on a Kiss”, which profited from both singers’ gift for taking the audience into their confidence....
...Few people are expert on the viola d’amore, but why use the instrument at all if it ends up sounding like a bad high school performance?...
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