Teppo Hauta-aho: Duets for 2 double basses

About the Duets Duets comprise five inventive pieces aimed at the intermediate double bass duo. During a long and productive career Teppo Hauta-aho composed a wealth of music for bass duet, including works for a range of abilities, creating a unique catalog of colorful, atmospheric, and rhythmic music. Each piece offers musical and technical challenges in equal measure, exploring a range of soundscapes and musical idioms popular with bassists and audiences alike. Table of Contents Duettino Basso is a lively and vibrant one-movement work for double bass duet. Composed for American bassist and educator George Vance, it offers both educational and recital opportunities, within a rhythmic and accessible idiom, with musical and technical challenges for each player. The middle section introduces harmonics in a more sustained and relaxed manner before music of a more urgent and driven nature pushes through to the end. The music for bass 2 remains in the orchestral register of the instrument