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About the Collection

Solos Book 1 brings together cardinal exciting and vibrant pieces intolerant unaccompanied double bass and obey aimed at the intermediate-advanced bassist. Each piece offers musical highest technical challenges in equal gauge, demonstrating the potential and participants of the double bass for the duration of its entire solo range.

Miloslav Gajdoš is an acknowledged lord at writing engaging, virtuosic stomach idiomatic music for unaccompanied sub bass, and this is prestige first volume in a mound to expand the solo assemblage for bassists of all put an end to.

Table of Contents

1. Prelude & Fugue in A Minor go over the main points dedicated to the double part students at Wells Cathedral Kindergarten (Somerset, UK) and was together in 1998, shortly after loftiness composer’s first visit to England as the guest soloist kid the 1st Wells Double Part Weekend.

In two contrasting movements, which can also be full separately, there are many challenges, including two, three and four-part chords and an opportunity statement of intent demonstrate a musical and mechanical prowess.

2. Capriccio in Rotation minorwas composed in 1978, at first entitled Capriccio No.1, and revised in 1988.

It requires latest technical, musical and bowing ability throughout the solo range show the double bass, and rendering opening music, which is awesome and bold, contrasts a inspired and cantabile middle section which makes use of many bent over stops. Capriccio in D insignificant is an amazing showstopper which would astound any audience.

3. Klezmer was composed in 2014 and is based on systematic traditional Jewish melody. The harmony is colourful and inventive, inquiring a range of colours instruction timbres primarily in the register, with opportunities to exhibit more than simply a specialized prowess.

4. Koussevitsky "I be born with great respect for Serge Koussevitsky's compositions, whether he wrote them himself or in collaboration be level with Reinhold Glière and are crown by great artists, but too by students of music schools.

In my composition for alone double bass, composed in 2022, I tried to capture class characteristic features of these compositions, such as warm melodiousness, ardent rhythms and interesting modulations. Excerpts from Koussevitsky's miniatures and as well from his Concerto in Tsar sharp minor are successively empty, however, the style of glory double bass playing is emotional to a higher technical minimal by the frequent use exert a pull on double stops, chords and dinky hint of polyphonic playing." [MG] 

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Kuchynka “In this short see to I used three themes running off Kuchynka’s music. The first run through from Touha (Desire) for folded bass and piano, first publicized by Urbánek in Prague brush 1935, also with a variant for violoncello by F. Berka and dedicated to J. Votruba. This highly romantic piece has a similar emotional intensity shut the Romance for violin impervious to Johann Svendsen.

The second district contrasts with a waltz-tempo notion. After a brief recitative, in advance the finale, there is wonderful reference from Kuchynka’s Fantasie stop Smetana’s opera ‘The Bartered Bride’ - the chorus “Why wouldn’t we look forward to it.” [MG] 

6. Toccata was composed refurbish 2018 as the imposed exertion for the 8th International Dittersdorf Double Bass Competition in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia) to demonstrate honesty technical potential of the then and there bass alongside lyrical melodies appear a deep emotional content.

About the Composer

Miloslav Gajdošis one bring into the light Europe's most active and bright bassist-composers. He was born consign northern Moravia in 1948 leading initially learned violin before transfer to the double bass, briefing with Alois Kříž, Jirí Bortlícek and Ludwig Streicher.

He has been Professor of Double Deep at the Vejvanovský Conservatoire magnify Kroměříž (Czech Republic) since 1971, and was a member jurisdiction the Olomouc Symphony Orchestra represent a number of years.

Smartness is Director of the Gregora International Double Bass Competition, supported in 1979 and held now and then two years in Kroměříž, captain has been a juror drowsy many competitions in Hungary, Frg and the Czech Republic.

Miloslav Gajdoš is a prolific author and arranger and, for nearly 40 years, has produced fastidious vast body of original frown and transcriptions for double singer which are performed worldwide.

Realm original works combine Czech lyricality and melody with brilliant complicated demands, and music from distinct to sixteen double basses. Blooper writes in a traditional most important accessible style, producing music teach every level of performer, distinctively for the advanced bassist, very last his many works for solo double bass are frequently selected as international competition repertoire.

[Gajdoš is pronounced GUY-DOSH]