Ludwig Streicher - Double-Bass Concertos (1976)

Ludwig Streicher is regarded without reservation as the most important double-bass virtuoso of our time. He was born in 1920 in Vienna and studied at the Vienna Academy of Music. From 1945 to 1973 he belonged to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 1966 he has been teaching pupils from all over the world in his class at the Hochschule fur Musik in Vienna. 1966 was also the year in which Streicher’s solo career began, with lasting sensational sugcess. Since then he has undertaken numerous concert tours throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa; he performed at the Salzburg and Bre-genz Festivals, at the Carinthian Summer and the "Mai de Versailles".

Streicher’s art, the virtuosity and musicality of his playing, his appearance and radiating personality are extraordinary. His ability has its deep roots in a lively appreciation of art, the mobility of which makes one forget the handicap of the brittle instrument, while even programme questions retreat to the background in favour of performance style, intensity of arrangement and musical subtlety. Streicher’s repertoire can be described as complete and comprehensive, especially since it contains both classical and the most up-to-date literature, including — as the highest specialist criterion — the entire Bottesini literature (A. Planyavsky, History of the Double-bass). Streicher plays a double-bass of normal size, constructed by the Viennese violin-maker Gabriel Lembock (1814—1892).

Erich Urbanner has for many years been regarded as one of the most outstanding Austrian composers of the younger generation. Born in 1936 in Innsbruck, he studied composition at the Vienna Academy of Music under Karl Schiske and Hanns Jelinek, piano with Grete Hinterhofer, and conducting under Hans Swarowsky. On conclusion 6f his studies he was immediately appointed by the Vienna Academy of Music, on the basis of his versatile gifts, as teacher for score playing. Today he is still active at the same institute of higher learning as professor of composition. At an early stage he already proved, to be a talented composer, and for many years kept himself fully informed on latest developments at the Darmstadt summer courses. While he does not exclusively follow certain topical trends there, Urbanner nevertheless is certainly inclined to incorporate into his works the most modern composition techniques, but in an independent manner.

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