Judith Bailey: Concerto - In the Style of Haydn for double bass & piano

About the Composition Concerto in the Style of Haydn was a prize-winning entry in the 2008 Recital Music/BIBF Composition Competition and is based on the two surviving bars of the 'lost' Haydn Double Bass Concerto. The style is melodic and accessible, offering a range of musical and technical challenges throughout the solo range of the double bass. A sonorous and cantabile tone is needed for the legato passages, contrasting a more virtuosic approach in the opening and closing sections of this inventive and enjoyable work. Judith Bailey writes: "Taking the theme of Haydn which was given, and which was short, I felt that it could naturally develop into a concerto within a style which Haydn might have used. Therefore, the theme has been 'completed' and is used in various forms throughout. The opening orchestral introductory twelve bars are my own invention, which serve as various bridge passages as well as being used for the final bars. There are no breaks in the concerto but the Allegro