David Heyes: Finnish Sketches for unaccompanied double bass

About the Compositions Finnish Sketches is a series of eleven colorful and evocative works for unaccompanied double bass. Nine last around one minute each and the final two are longer, and all were composed for Teppo-Fest 2016 to celebrate the 75th birthday of the Finnish bassist-composer Teppo Hauta-aho (1941-2021). The theme for each piece is taken from the Kalevala, a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. The musical style is modern but tonal and accessible, employing a range of playing styles and effects to create a series of atmospheric, inventive, and imaginative mini tone-poems for the intermediate bassist. 1. Lintukoto (Home of the Birds) - dedicated to Teppo Hauta-aho "Very nice piece I played it few minutes ago and tried to call you Thanks!" [Teppo Hauta-aho] "Lintukoto has a simple yet restless beauty to it (so hard to achieve, in my view). It 'feels' very Scandinavian; at least, an inkling of Niel