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Special offer. Modern American Bass

Robert Black (double bass) & John MacDonald (piano)

Modern American Bass
Robert Black's recital disc works best when resonating in sympathy with the instrument's tonal grain and registral colours. Black has technical facility like other people have mice...[in 'Valentine']...

Special offer. Modern American Bass

Robert Black (double bass) & John MacDonald (piano)

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Robert Black's recital disc works best when resonating in sympathy with the instrument's tonal grain and registral colours. Black has technical facility like other people have mice...[in 'Valentine']...

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Robert Black’s recital on these discs shows the remarkable emergence of the double bass as a leading voice for the most intimate and imaginative musings of American composers from the last century. Disc 1 features works for bass and piano and Disc 2 unaccompanied bass. Included are works by Johanna Beyer, John Cage, Barney Childs, Jacob Druckman, Joseph Iadone and Jerome Moross.

Contents and tracklist

I. Con moto
Track length3:58
II. Adagio
Track length3:49
III. Scherzo
Track length2:06
I. Arioso
Track length2:35
II. Etude
Track length2:12
I. Andante
Track length3:17
II. Allegro ma non troppo
Track length4:54
III. Poco lento ma ben ritmico
Track length6:03
I. Moderato con moto
Track length2:22
II. Not too slow
Track length1:43
III. Allegro moderato
Track length1:46
I. Meditative
Track length3:35
II. With relaxed motion
Track length3:25
III. Recitative and March
Track length2:46
I. Rubato
Track length2:15
II. Allegro ritmico
Track length1:55
III. Moderato
Track length4:32

Awards and reviews

March 2012

Robert Black's recital disc works best when resonating in sympathy with the instrument's tonal grain and registral colours. Black has technical facility like other people have mice...[in 'Valentine'] he sings at his bass, fondles it with a timpani stick, caricatures its melodic utterances with his voice. It sounds like spontaneous pillow talk but every detail is carefully notated to showcase the instrument's b(l)ooming marvels.
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