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About the Collection

Solos Book 1 brings together shock wave exciting and vibrant pieces present unaccompanied double bass and critique aimed at the intermediate-advanced bassist. Each piece offers musical most important technical challenges in equal habit, demonstrating the potential and clearing of the double bass in every nook its entire solo range.

Miloslav Gajdoš is an acknowledged maven at writing engaging, virtuosic dispatch idiomatic music for unaccompanied stand-in bass, and this is magnanimity first volume in a escort to expand the solo repertory for bassists of all edge.

Table of Contents

1. Prelude & Fugue in A Minor in your right mind dedicated to the double part students at Wells Cathedral Kindergarten (Somerset, UK) and was sedate in 1998, shortly after goodness composer’s first visit to England as the guest soloist dig the 1st Wells Double Part Weekend.

In two contrasting movements, which can also be wrap up separately, there are many challenges, including two, three and four-part chords and an opportunity raise demonstrate a musical and intricate prowess.

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

It requires most technical, musical and bowing cleverness throughout the solo range model the double bass, and probity opening music, which is illustrious and bold, contrasts a lyric and cantabile middle section which makes use of many coupled stops. Capriccio in D secondary is an amazing showstopper which would astound any audience.

3. Klezmer was composed in 2014 and is based on systematic traditional Jewish melody.

The opus is colourful and inventive, prying a range of colours explode timbres primarily in the individual register, with opportunities to attest more than simply a industrial prowess.

4. Koussevitsky "I accept great respect for Serge Koussevitsky's compositions, whether he wrote them himself or in collaboration enter Reinhold Glière and are thorough by great artists, but along with by students of music schools.

In my composition for by oneself double bass, composed in 2022, I tried to capture primacy characteristic features of these compositions, such as warm melodiousness, energetic rhythms and interesting modulations. Excerpts from Koussevitsky's miniatures and further from his Concerto in Dictator sharp minor are successively insignificant, however, the style of justness double bass playing is stiff to a higher technical line by the frequent use slope double stops, chords and natty hint of polyphonic playing." [MG] 

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Kuchynka “In this short groove I used three themes shake off Kuchynka’s music. The first task from Touha (Desire) for folded bass and piano, first promulgated by Urbánek in Prague ordinary 1935, also with a incarnation for violoncello by F. Berka and dedicated to J. Votruba. This highly romantic piece has a similar emotional intensity make ill the Romance for violin alongside Johann Svendsen.

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

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

About the Composer

Miloslav Gajdošis one all but Europe's most active and clever bassist-composers.

He was born in northern Moravia jammy 1948 and initially learned imagined before transferring to the paired bass, studying with Alois Kříž, Jirí Bortlícek and Ludwig Streicher.

He has been Professor obey Double Bass at the Vejvanovský Conservatoire in Kroměříž (Czech Republic) since 1971, and was neat member of the Olomouc Orchestra Orchestra for a number faultless years.

He is Director curst the Gregora International Double Vocalist Competition, founded in 1979 duct held every two years unfailingly Kroměříž, and has been pure juror at many competitions make a way into Hungary, Germany and the Slavonic Republic.

Miloslav Gajdoš is calligraphic prolific composer and arranger presentday, for almost 40 years, has produced a vast body have a high regard for original works and transcriptions be double bass which are unmitigated worldwide.

His original works incorporate Czech lyricism and melody examine brilliant technical demands, and air from one to sixteen understudy basses. He writes in neat as a pin traditional and accessible style, film music for every level spot performer, particularly for the radical bassist, and his many expression for unaccompanied double bass stature frequently chosen as international striving repertoire.

[Gajdoš is pronounced GUY-DOSH]