Iuga/Triendl - Franz Schubert, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Yuri Levitin and Paul Hindemith: Sonatas for Solo Double Bass and Piano

The double bass is an instrument that can all too often be misunderstood and is often lightly dismissed: due to its impressive size, it is assumed that the instrument is only capable of ponderous, heavy, grumpy sounds. The fact that there is not a grain of truth in either of these urban myths is borne out by the double bass sonatas on the present album and the soloist, Romanian double bassist Petru Iuga: music is innate to this instrument that is anything but cumbersome; it is in fact capable of producing sensuous melodies, virtuoso forms of expression suit it just as well as contemplative ones do, and its spectrum ranges from the deepest gruff growl to the brightest, most heartfelt burst of laughter.