Double Bass Concerto

Farewell to St. Petersburg' for solo double bass, optional 3 part bass choir and chamber orchestra

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Gavin Bryars

Double Bass Concerto

Farewell to St. Petersburg' for solo double bass, optional 3 part bass choir and chamber orchestra

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Gavin Bryars

Double Bass Concerto

Farewell to St. Petersburg' for solo double bass, optional 3 part bass choir and chamber orchestra

  • Instrumentation Double Bass and Chamber Orchestra
  • Optional Instrumentation Double Bass, Male Choir (BBB) and Chamber Orchestra
  • Composer Gavin Bryars
  • Edition Study Score Download
  • Publisher Schott Musik
  • Order no. ED13956-DL
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Description:

  • Language: Russian
  • Pages: 52
  • Release: 31.10.2017
  • Term: 28:00
  • Genre: Classical Music, Classical Music of the Modern Age
This concerto has the unusual addition of an optional male voice choir. Many Russian elements influenced Bryars when he was writing the piece, not least the text for the bass voices which is taken from Glinka's song cycle Farewell to St Petersburg. Bryars writes 'The orchestration is quite light throughout, so that the singing quality of the double bass can emerge. The emphasis in terms of tessitura is on the middle register, though in the closing section there is a passage in natural harmonics. Although the piece is not designed to be a virtuoso showpiece, there is a brief cadenza in which the soloist is supported at times by other solo instruments (bass clarinet, viola, cello, bass).'