David Heyes: Celebrations Book 3 for unaccompanied double bass
About the Collection Celebrations Book 3 brings together sixteen exciting, evocative and inventive works for unaccompanied double bass by David Heyes. Composed between 2016 and 2022, each piece was composed for a specific bassist, commemoration, or anniversary, and all are aimed at the intermediate bassist. David Heyes exploits and explores a wealth of colors and timbres in each piece, always within a lyrical framework, creating music that offers musical and technical challenges in equal measure. His music is played by bassists of all ages and abilities with performances in 27 countries across five continents. Reviews "Today's double bassists are indebted to composers who wrote for this forefather of the double bass. Double bassists of today are indebted to David Heyes for his extensive publishing work, compositions, and commissioning of works for the double bass." [David B. Teague] "Double bassist and composer David Heyes(UK) is keeping the tradition alive, teaching a new generation