The Bohemian Bass Book 1 (edited by David Heyes) for double bass & piano

About the Collection The Bohemian Bass Book 1 brings together four impressive solo works for double bass and piano by leading members of the late 19th-century Czech School of Double Bass. Aimed at the intermediate-advanced bassist, each piece explores the entire register of the instrument in music in a lyrical and expressive style, emphasizing the cantabile and sonorous qualities of the double bass. 1. Danse Caprice is in one extended movement and emphasizes the lyrical, and cantabile qualities of the double bass throughout its solo register. The style is late- romantic and accessible, probably written at the end of the 19th-century, with a strongly independent and supportive piano accompaniment. Černý’s music is always beautifully written for the double bass and the title echoes the dance-like style, in waltz time, with capricious energy and effervescence throughout. František Černý (1861-1940) studied composition with Antonín Dvořák and much of his music reflects the salon s