Informationen zu "David Heyes Impressions Double Bass Solo"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM890
EAN: 9790570458905
ISMN: M-57045-890-5
Beschreibung
Impressions is a set of four short works for unaccompanied double bass, each
composed for and dedicated to a student of the composer. David Heyes writes:
'The World Inside... was composed in 2013 for Matthew Green, one of my former
students at Wells Cathedral School (Somerset, UK). Matthew was both musically
talented and academically gifted, eventually deciding to study History at
Cambridge University. My aim was to write a short piece which included
musical and technical challenges in equal measure, with a recurring motif
which begins and ends the work, creating music which explores a range of
moods and landscapes. Slow and fast episodes alternate with passages of
repose contrasting music of a more energetic and immediate nature. 'the
dreamer of dreams...' takes its title from a line in the poem 'The Music
Makers' by Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881) and is dedicated to Josie
Jobbins, one of my former students at Wells Cathedral School. Josie is a very
lyrical bassist and I wanted to write something which played to her
strengths. She has astrong technical command of the solo register of the
double bass and the long melodic phrases, written in a lyrical but modern
idiom, demonstrate her singing and cantabile approach. 'That's Life!' is
played pizzicato throughout and employs a number of jazz and contemporary
effects. Jim Rintoul is one of my adult students and has had an interesting
career including a number of years as a successful rock musician in Japan.
Today, Jim performs both as a classcial and jazz bassist and 'That's Life!'
is jazz-inspired with the addition of a few effects which are common to both
musical styles such as glissandi, 'hammer-on', pedal notes and left hand
pizzicato. It has a strong rhythmic momentum and driving remaining in bass
clef throughout. 'Tintagel' was composed for Joe Prindl, one of my students
at Wells Cathedral School, and was inspired by a visit to the ruins of
Tintagel in Cornwall a few years ago, which is also Joe's home county. The
piece begins with slow and lyrical music gradually, initially in the lower
register of the double bass before ascending into a more soloistic register,
to reflect the slow and difficult climb from the beach to the top of the
castle ruins, almost travelling through time. The music changes colour, with
the use of double stops, building in strength and intensity to display the
exciting history of the castle - the battles and storms, and a unique energy
and fascination which is linked to the legend of King Arthur. The double
stops play to the end of the piece, with the melodic interest played on the
lower string and the upper one acting as a drone. The music and energy slow
drift away into nothingness and the mists of time...' 'The world inside..'
and 'the dreamer of dreams' were premiered by the composer at Prague
Conservatoire (Czech Republic) on Tuesday 8 April 2014. David Heyes studied
double bass with Laurence Gray and Bronwen Naish and later at the Royal
College of Music in London. He completed his post-graduate studies in Prague
with Frantisek Posta (Principal Double 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 has been Specialist Double Bass Tutor at Wells Cathedral
School for 19 years and received 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. He works
with composers throughout the world and is particularly interested to expand
the double bass repertoire, by commissioning new works and by rediscovering
forgotten ones. Over the past 30 years he has commissioned more than 500
works, from beginner to virtuoso, and from one to twenty basses. David has
transcribed more than 200 works for double bass, many published by Recital
Music, and in recent year has also composed a number of original works for
double bass which have been performed in Britain, America, Venezuela, Turkey,
Spain, Mexico, Germany and Czech Republic. David is self-taught as a composer
and his music has been described as lyrical, evocative and accessible, but
certainly of the 21st-century.
