Double bassist Gary Karr gives an admirable performance of Johnson's 'Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass'. The work requires Karr to talk to his audience from a script, while performing increasingly complicated material - with the idea that at some point the musician will 'fail' and the work will come to a grinding halt.
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The performance of Vaughan Williams’s chamber work was put together remotely, with each bassist recording their part in separate countries
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