DITTERSDORF, Carl Ditters von

Concerto for double bass and orchestra no. 2 in E major (double bass and piano reduction)

II. Adagio

Dorin Marc, guest professor

Vicente Bono Plancha, student

Jesús Gómez Madrigal, accompanying pianist

Prof. Dorin Marc begins the lecture indicating that vibrato should be freer. It is important to pay attention to the back for studying, and Marc explains where the movement to play come from. They mention the character for this movement: it is a kind of religious Adagio and a little ‘alla Mendelssohn’
They work in detail the beginning of the movement to get the phrasing, character and dynamics more suitable. They play passages on different ways to check which one is better and they change some fingerings. Phrasing is formed by layers with different dynamics. In professor’s opinion, it is fundamental that the use of the bow agrees with the phrasing. They speaks also about bow pressure on the string and the produced color. Then they talk about the way to play glissandi and how to reach the culminant points of the phrases using different quantity, speed, movility or direction of bow. Bow is the real artist. He relates also the movement of the bow with the movement of the arm (it is pendular).
Prof. Marc insists on the right posture to play and he makes suggestions on phrasing, trills, tuning and expressivity.

Language: Italian