Saint Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 arranged for solo double bass

About the Composition A famous cello concert on bass? Why not? How about a dude named Camille? You've heard cellists shred this epic concerto, trying to impress everyone around them, but would they ever dare try it on bass? Now you can strike terror in the feeble hearts of cellists everywhere when you uncork this bottle of awesome and spray your virtuosity all over them, those impoverished souls who chose the wrong instrument. Arranged sensibly for bass, with a few of the really cellistic problems solved idiomatically for our vastly superior instrument. Two versions are provided, one in the original A minor and one in G minor for solo tuning. The piano accompaniment is available here. 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 believes tha