Simón García: The Night before Christmas for double bass & piano

About the Composition I wrote this piece for the great bassist and friend, David Heyes, who needed original repertoire for double bass and piano for a Christmas recital in December 2013. I found it interesting to explore the "Christmas sounds" on the double bass and decided to write a piece where the solo bass part is played entirely in harmonics throughout, to convey the sweetness and warmth of Christmas time.  A one-bar introduction transports us speedily into a happy home as if we have traveled with Charles Dickens´s Ghosts of Christmas Past and Present. The piece aims to portray the innocence and jollity of children at this festive time of year and has two main themes. The first theme conveys the happy home, the heat of the fire in the fireplace while it's snowing outside, and the children are restless and excited on Christmas eve.  The second theme is the calm of the night, all the family is sleeping, you can only hear the ticking of the clock and this is the moment before Santa C