Virtuose Kammermusik - Double-Bass quartet (1981)

KLAUS STOLL was born in 1943. A pupil of Heinz Detering, he was already a member of the Niederrhein Symphony Orchestra at 15; in 1965 he joined the Berlin Philharmonic, and two years later became the orchestra's principal double-bass. In 1970 he began his career as a soloist, in the course of which he has undertaken concert tours world-wide, and has made numerous gramophone recordings of virtuoso works of all periods. Stoll plays a double-bass built by Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Brescia, anno 1617.

FRIEDRICH WITT, born 1930, became Germany's youngest bass-player when, at the age of 20, having studied at the Folkwangschule in Essen, he joined the Munster Civic Orchestra. After posts in Duisburg and Frankfurt, he joined the Berlin Philharmonic in 1954 as a solo bass-player. Witt is an active chamber musician (he also plays the recorder and harpsichord), and, since 1972, has been teaching at the Orchestra's Academy. For this recording he used alternately an Antonio Mariani instrument of 1667, and one built by Giovanetti de Lucca in 1839.

ERICH HARTMANN, born 1920, has been playing double-bass with the Berlin Philharmonic since 1943. In addition to his activities as a musician, he has composed a considerable number of works, with the emphasis on solo pieces, sonatas, duos, trios, quartets and even an octet, all for double-bass. Hartmann's works receive frequent performance today from bass-players all over the world. His first Double-Bass Quartet is recorded here for the first time.

WOLFGANG KOHLY, born 1944, has been a bass-player in the Berlin Philharmonic since 1967, and was one of the founders of the orchestra's Double-Bass Quartet: he has given concerts and made radio broadcasts with the Quartet in Saarbrucken, Freiburg, Berlin, Salzburg, Tokyo . . . With his five-stringed instrument built by the Bolzano master Matthias Albanus, Kohly forms the foundation of the Berlin Philharmonic Double-Bass Quartet in all the pieces on this record.

- Источник оцифровки: автор новости (plastinka/nickhome)
- Класс состояния винила: VG+
- Устройство воспроизведения: Электроника ЭП-017С
- Картридж: Audio-Technica AT440MLa
- Предварительный усилитель: Cambridge Audio Azur 551P
- АЦП: ESI Julia
- Обработка: автоматическое удаление щелчков
- Формат записи (Bit/kHz): 32 float/96