FOCUS :: Virtuoso double bass

There's a classic Polish pop song about a lovely cello player... but how romantic is a double bass? That may seem to be an instrument that's usually somewhere at the back of an orchestra or making a nice warm booming sound in a jazz band.

But there is a large group of aficionados who consider it a peerless virtuoso instrument...

Irena Olkiewicz, to all probability Poland's first woman to play double bass, and organiser of the First International Double Bass Symposium now on at the Academy of Music in Wrocław, talks to Elżbieta Krajewska.