Teppo Hauta-aho: Erkon Elegia for unaccompanied double bass or double bass ensemble

  About the Composition Erkon Elegia is a beautiful and evocative work offering effective and accessible challenges to the intermediate bassist. Using just over a two-octave range and remaining primarily in bass clef, it demonstrates the wide range of colors and timbres available to the modern bassist. Composed in 1994, Erkon Elegia can be played by unaccompanied double bass or ensemble and the edition includes both versions. The ensemble version divides into two and three parts to create a work of enormous breadth and beauty. Reviews "Erkon Elegia is accessible to advanced beginning bassists with the ability to perform with confidence into the lower thumb positions." [ISB] "Erkon Elegia is a versatile little piece that can be played as a solo, duo, trio, or ensemble. In only 49 bars, and using elementary music, Hauta-aho manages to use many of his trademark compositional characteristics...it's friendly geography and varied colourscape should prove popular with beginning bassists." [D