Category: Biographies

The history of the double bass has always held an enormous fascination for me, especially the players, teachers and composers, and over the past 40 years I have enjoyed rediscovering overlooked, long forgotten or unknown works. Each piece of music is part of the rich double bass heritage, every composer has made a unique contribution…

Sonata for double bass & piano “Karel Reiner (1910–79) – a major missing voice in Czech music – suffered under both of twentieth-century Europe’s major tyrannies. As a Jew he was imprisoned by the Nazis, miraculously surviving a series of atrocities: Terezín, Auschwitz, a camp near Dachau and a death march. Then, back in Prague…