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THE CRITICS:
DN: "The Double Bass aligns with the unusualities on the solo horizont, but the broad register of the instrument is breathing life experience. On the album Björn Malmqvist performs pieces for Double Bass by six composers, mostly from the Baltic region. This is music cleaned to the bone, fascinatingly expressive in relations to its means."
NT: "It is sounding manly and cocky, racy and airy. The double bass on this album bursts all frames and ingrained opinions about the instrument being the slave of the collective - the double bass stands on its own leg. All composers with a wish to steer the listener into fairways of new explorations. "
Bass Player: "This CD with a striking cover (Malmqvist playing a very red bass on a barren outcrop a few feet at most from deep blue waves crashing on the rocky Baltic coast) is an outstanding debut by Malmqvist. The playing throughout is exceptionally accurate and musical and the recording clear and highly detailed. "
Double Bassist: "Malmqvist´s performances of the third version of Hauta-Aho´s Kadenza and Vasks´s Sonata hit one between the eyes. He carries off these works´ expressive effects and technical challenges with apparent ease and with scarcely any casualty to accuracy or tone quality (---) there is scarcely a weak link in this enjoyable compliation, which provides admirable confirmation of Malmqvist´s versatility, invention, technical command and consummate artistry. "
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