Informationen zu "David Heyes Hymnus: In Memoriam Lev Rakov Double Bass Solo"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM1083
EAN: 9990093814626
Beschreibung
David Heyes writes: 'Hymnus: In Memoriam Lev Rakov was completed on 13
January 2020 and was commissioned by the Rakov family for a memorial concert
in memory of my friend Lev at Moscow Conservatoire on 14 February, which
would have been his 94th birthday. Unfortunately, due to a number of
unforeseen circumstances, Sarah Poole and I were unable to be in Russia for
the concert. 'Hymnus: In Memoriam Lev Rakov' is based on A and E, two
letters from Lev Rakov's name, and is free flowing and rhapsodic throughout.
Written without bar lines, the piece is lyrical and sonorous, exploiting a
rich register of the solo double bass. Much of the piece was written to be
played on the G string, with a recurring open A drone, played arco or
pizzicato. It ebbs and flows naturally, with a passionate and searing phrase
played in the higher solo register, before the opening theme returns with
music gradually losing impetus and energy and ending slowly and simply with a
lonely sustained A which gradually fades into silence. PREMIERE: Saturday 8
February 2020 by David Heyes (double bass) at Wells & Mendip Museum (Wells,
Somerset). RUSSIAN PREMIERE: Saturday 15 February 2020 by Jan Krigovsky
(double bass) at Conservatoire of Music, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. David Heyes
(b.1960) studied double bass with Laurence Gray and Bronwen Naish, later at
the Royal College of Music in London, and completed his post-graduate studies
in Prague with Franti?ek Po?ta (Principal Bass, Czech Philharmonic
Orchestra). He has given recitals and masterclasses in 13 countries over the
past few years and has been a juror at a number of international
competitions, twice as chairman. David's collaborative work gained him a
prestigious award from the David Walter Charitable Trust of New York for his
pioneering activities as a soloist, teacher, publisher and commissioner of
new music for double bass and he works with composers throughout the world to
expand the double bass repertoire by commissioning new music and by
rediscovering forgotten ones. Since 1990 more than 600 works have been
written for him, music from one to twenty basses and from beginner to
virtuoso, and he has premiered ten contemporary concertos with orchestra.
David has transcribed and performed a wealth of music for double bass and in
recent years has composed a number of original works which have been
performed both nationally and internationally. Six works inspired by the
centenary of the First World War have been particularly successful and his
choral and vocal music has been performed with success in Britain, Ireland
and America. He composed 'Sahara' for unaccompanied double bass as the
imposed work for the 2015 Galicia Graves Double Bass competition in Spain and
returned there as Featured Composer and guest tutor in 2017/18. Since 2014
David has had music performed in 25 countries (UK, USA, Germany, Czech
Republic, Mexico, Turkey, Venezuela, Australia, Republic of Ireland, Israel,
Malta, Brazil, Denmark, Ecuador, Japan, France, Slovakia, Italy, New Zealand,
Norway, Austria, Spain, Guatemala, Albania and Patagonia). ?Lamentations? for
unaccompanied double bass was the imposed work in the 2019 Karl Dittersdorf
International Double Bass Competition in Slovakia. In November 2016 two of
David?s songs were recorded by Sarah Poole (soprano) and Derek Harris (piano)
for Prima Facie Records, who also recorded an entire CD of works by David in
January 2017.
