This is a “best of” episode from three classic Contrabass Conversations episodes. Back in the early days of the podcast, John Grillo and I recorded two episodes that dissected various excerpts. He and I talked through each excerpt and then played a recording of John performing it.
These have been extremely popular resources over the years, but they came out not he podcast ten years ago. With so many episodes of this podcast and so many new listeners to the show, bringing these classic offerings to light is important to me, so I’m planning on doing a few rebroadcasts of this cornerstone content every now and again.
Orchestra Excerpts Covered:
- Beethoven Symphony No. 9
- Beethoven Symphony No. 5
- Brahms Symphony No. 1 and 2
- Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
- Mozart Symphony No. 35 and 39
- Mahler Symphony No. 2
- Schubert Symphony No. 9
- Strauss Ein Heldenleben
- Britten Young Person’s Guide
- Verdi Otello
Opera Excerpts Covered:
- Strauss
- Salome
- Rosenkavalier
- Wagner
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- Die Walküre
- Britten
- Peter Grimes
- Verdi
- Otello
- Rigoletto
- Falstaff
- Weber
- Euryanthe
- Mozart
- Magic Flute
- Marriage of Figaro
- Beethoven
- Fidelio
- Humperdinck
- Hansel and Gretel
