Concerto For Double Bass And String Quartet

It was a chance visit to a second hand bookshop in Nottingham that set me on the trail of Rossini's now well-known Duetto for cello and double bass. But the story begins earlier than that. In the 1960s I was studying the double bass at the Royal College of Music with Adrian Beers who was at that time principal of the English Chamber Orchestra on the front desk of the Philharmonia Orchestra and a member of the Melos Ensemble of London (then one of the leading ensembles of the world). I was working on the 'Dragonetti Concerto' as most young players do and I wanted to find out a bit about it. My teacher said he thought the autograph manuscript might be in the British Library which was all the encouragement I needed to secure a pass to the Reading Room so I could go and see for myself. There sure enough I found a large collection of Dragonetti's autograph manuscripts together with other bound volumes relating to his life. The papers had been lovingly collated and annotated by Vincent Novello one of Dragonetti's closest friends then deposited in the library before his departure to Italy in 1848 two years after Dragonetti's death. One of the volumes included a lot of letters about various engagements and music festivals copies of orders for strings Dragonetti wanted from Italy details about paintings he wanted to buy and numerous invitations to private functions. The manuscript of the 'Dragonetti Concerto' of course wasn't among the papers we now know it to have been written by Edouard Nanny a century or so later. One name that came up regularly in the documents was that of Sir George Smart. Smart had been a violinist in Salomon's orchestra and had played for Haydn at his London concerts in the 1790s. As a child he had learnt much about music from his father who had in turn been present at many of Handel's rehearsals when he was preparing some of his major works for the first time. Smart was also a fine keyboard player becoming organist of the Chapel Royal in 1822. As a conductor

Complete method for the Double Bass – Part 2 is the first of a series of two created by Edouard Nanny a French Double-Bass player teacher and composer. Conceived to acquire correct technique and a good sonority the Complete method for the four and five stringed Double Bass – Part 2 is perfect for intermediate players. Including scales exercises and small studies this second volume follows on Part 1 also available at Alphonse Leduc. Edouard Nanny(1872-1942) had internal recognition as a composer during his lifetime and composed two concerti and additional methods such as 'Twentyvirtuoso studies' among others.

An interesting and cleverly created cooncerto that is enjoyable and easy on the ear! Composed in 1971 by Alan Ridout here are two simple movements with strings suitable for grades 5 and 8 and are set as part of the ABRSM examinations.

Concerto For Double Bass And String Quartet was composed by Anders Koppel in 2000.The work exists in 3 versions:1)for Double Bass and Orchestra2)for Double Bass and Piano3)for Double Bass and String Quartet (the present edition).

G major - Stimmensatz - each 3 violins I+II, 2 violas, 3 cellos/double basses - 2 violas, strings and basso continuo editor: Lebermann, Walter composer: Telemann, Georg Philipp Série: Concertino Difficulté: Intermediate pages: 48

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In 2001 Bärenreiter issued a newly engraved keyboard reduction and solo parts to this concerto based on the acclaimed New Bach Edition.The present expanded new publication goes a step further in that it offers not only the two solo Violin parts as presented in the New Bach Edition but also two additional parts with fingerings and bowings by the baroque specialist Andrew Manze.Manze also offers players enlightened comments (English/German) on historical performance practices dealing with how the instrument was held fingerings bowing shifting the use of open strings and much much more.Full score & parts (BA5188) 2 Violins and Pianoreduction (BA5188-90) and study score (TP284) available for sale.

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If Bach Was A Cellist-The purpose of the series if Bach was a cellist is to live the fantasy that everything Bach wrote he wrote for the cello.The concerto in D minor (BWV 1043) for two violins string orchestra and continuo by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is one of his most loved works. Indeed the slow movement may be one of the most popular and loved pieces in the instrumental literature. Traditionally it is believed to have been written in Köthen where he held the position of 'fürstlischer Kapellmeister' from 1717-1723 a town that saw the birth of the Brandenburg concertos and the solo works for violin and cello. The Dorian church mode (the absent Bflat in the key of Dminor) would also speak for the younger Bach. Recent research however has shown that the orchestral parts carefully written out by Bach himself and found among the papers of his son Carl Philip Emanuel date from around 1730. The sophistication of the composition also speaks for a later date than Köthen. The original score has been lost.Always in need of concert material for his 'Collegium Musicus' in Leipzig Bach made a version of the present concerto for two harpsichords (BWV 1062). The original key was transposed to C minor so that the top note would not exceed a D but remain within the range of a standard harpsichord. Another C minor concerto (BWV 1060) for two harpsi-chords often heard in an arrangement from the 1920's for violin and oboe by Max Schneider and Max Seiffert speaks for two concertos in D minor for two violins by Bach.When arranging an orchestral score for the pianoforte one has to remember that a double-bass sounds an octave lower than notated. This is a welcomed fact when dealing with two instruments that play the original solo parts an octave down. At the same time for a transcription of this kind the ambition must be to avoid the cello soloists playing in octaves with the violin tutti parts - which is what would happen were they to share the same material. This ambition made a piano reduction

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Concerto For Double Bass And Orchestra was composed by Anders Koppel in 2000.The work exists in 3 versions:1)for Double Bass and String Quartet2)for Double Bass and Piano3)for Double Bass and Orchestra (the present edition).

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