Auguste Chapuis: Choral for double bass & piano

About the Composition Choral was composed in 1924 and is dedicated to French bassist Edouard Nanny. Aimed at the intermediate bassist, the music is independent, lyrical and dramatic, and written in a modern and late-romantic idiom. The influence of Ravel and Debussy are never too far away and this is a wonderful, but long-forgotten, piece for the adventurous bassist looking for something ‘new’ and a little different. The piano accompaniment is strongly supportive and rhythmically inventive and independent and the piece has both player and audience appeal. Reviews "Choral is an interesting and most welcome turn of the 20th-century French work. The composer was a pupil of Massenet and Franck. Choral covers a three-octave range, though it is largely unproblematic from a technical standpoint. The opening is forceful, even declamatory, and might almost have been worked into a sonata exposition. There then follows a lyrical second theme. Both these ideas return again, so overall the work of