Baerenreiter Verlag Double Bass Collection - Double Bass/Piano

Instrumentation:

DOUBLE BASS

Model #:

BA9696

Concert Pieces for Double Bass and Piano

Editors: J. Peter Close, Holger Sassmannshaus
Includes: Double bass Solo, Piano Reduction
Languages: German, English
Publisher: Barenreiter Verlag

This collection is conceived for young double bass players who wish to start performing in public.
The edition contains 19 concert pieces which are easy to rehearse yet sound effective from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods. In addition there are newly composed pieces by the Polish bass player Boguslaw Furtok (*1967).

- Concert pieces for double bass and piano accompaniment
- Easy to medium level of difficulty
- Ideal continuation of the string method Early Start on the Double Bass

Contents:
Composer: Hugo Schlemller, Song op. 12/1

Composer: Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, German Dance

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Papageno's Aria from "The Magic Flute K. 620", March of the Priests from "The Magic Flute K. 620"

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Adagio originally for mandolin and harpsichord

Composer: Ludwig Mendelssohn, Minuet from "Student Concerto op. 213, 2nd movement"

Composer: Anonymus, Tre giorni

Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Largo from "BWV 1056/2"

Composer: Charles Dancla, Polka from "Petite ecole de la melodie. 20 petits pieces tres faciles en trois suites (op. 123, suite no. 1/6)

Composer: Gabriel Faure, Apres un reve

Composer: August Nolck, Tempo di ballo from "Petit Album de Concert"

Composer: Jean Baptiste Breval, Arranger: Louis R. Feuillard, Adagio from "Concertino in F, 2nd movement"

Composer: Peter Tschaikowsky, Chanson triste

Composer: Franz Keyper, Romance

Composer: Robert Fuchs, Allegro moderato from "Three Pieces for Contrabass and Piano (op. 96/1)", based on Mozart

Composer: Boguslaw Furtok, Elegie

Composer: Gabriel Faure, Sicilienne op. 78

Composer: Boguslaw Furtok, Concert Piece

Composer: Camille Saint-Saens, The Swan from "The Carnival of the Animals"

The Editors:
Holger Sassmannshaus is a double bass player with the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker, Germany, as well as being a double bass teacher and musician in other ensembles
J. Peter Close teaches violoncello and double bass in Munich.