Informationen zu "David Heyes Three for Alex Double Bass & Piano"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM918
EAN: 9790570459186
ISMN: M-57045-918-6
Beschreibung
The suite was composed for Alex Gibberd, a talented young student in Bristol,
with funding provided by the City of Bristol. Each movement offers musical
and technical challenges for the progressing young bassist and exploits the
different and varied possibilities of the double bass. 1. Recitative is a
simple dialogue between double bass and piano, playable arco or pizzicato,
with scope to create an atmospheric and rhapsodic performance which is both
free and flexible. 2. Vale Triste demonstrates the lyrical and cantabile
qualities of the double bass, primarily in bass clef but in the more
soloistic register, and only using a small number of chords in the
accompaniment with variation in the melodic line to add contrast. 3. March
of the Marionettes is rhythmic and with a strong forward momentum. A more
contemporary idiom is employed, inspired by the music of Shostakovich and
Prokofiev, which builds to a climax before a false ending as the music falls
away, concluding with a loud and positive chord and a slap pizzicato. note
from the bassist. Three for Alex was premiered by Alex Gibberd (double bass)
and Joachim Schwander (piano) at St. George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol on 29
January 2016. 'Three for Alex is a set of three short but effective pieces
for the intermediate student. The first piece Recitative is a freely
rhapsodic pizzicato fragmented melody over jazz chords in the piano. The
second and third pieces, Valse Triste and March of the Marionettes, have a
similar structure to each other with a simple melody over repeated four bar
harmonies. Whereas Valse Triste is slow moving in D minor, March of the
Marionettes has a very different feel with a marching dotted rhythm in the
bass line of the piano and chords on the 2nd and 4th beats. Both pieces use
thumb position in an approachable manner while Valse Triste would also be
useful for consolidating fourth and fifth positions. Clearly laid out on the
page these pieces are useful study items but individually probably too short
as concert items at the Grade 5-6 level.' [Cathy Elliott/ARCO-ESTA]
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.
