Karl Davidov: Cello Concerto No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 5 for double bass & piano (arr. Kurth)

About the Composition Who was Karl Davidov? Tchaikovsky called him "the Czar of Cellists."  He played the Strad that Yo-Yo Ma now plays. He wrote a lot of cello music. I felt obliged to steal some of it (he won't mind; he's dead.) It's pretty good stuff, mid-19th-century Russian romanticism. A little more difficult than the Gliere Tarantella. Like Bottesini, only Russianer. I transposed it to A minor, took out some blatantly cellistic stuff like octaves (ouch!), and put in a few sensible fingering solutions for the nastier bits. Wouldn't it be cool to show up at the next concerto competition with something no other bassist is playing? Download the piano part | Arranged for solo tuning double bass. About Michael Kurth Kurth has been a member of the Atlanta Symphony bass section since 1994.  Michael Kurth thinks most artist biographies are pretentious and boring, and feels a welcome sense of liberation, not to mention mischief, when writing about himself in the third person. He further