Teppo Hauta-aho: Typically Teppo 3 for unaccompanied double bass

About the Collection Typically Teppo 3 brings together six engaging and inventive works which demonstrate the many musical and technical challenges of the solo double bass. All were composed in the 21st-century with each inhabiting its own individual and unique musical soundscape. Table of Contents 1. A Bass Waltz (2016) was composed for a Double Bass Festival at the Royal College of Music in London and was completed on 12 August 2016. Played primarily in harmonics, with an occasional pizzicato chord or open string to ground the work, it's ethereal and bleak musical landscape has echoes of the composers native Finland portraying its vast open spaces of forests and lakes. 2. Justonen (2005) is the shortest of the three works and remains in treble clef throughout. It was completed on 12 December 2005 and is a beautiful miniature to demonstrate the lyrical and cantabile possibilities of the double bass. 3. Pizzicato Serenade (2015) is the longest and most challenging of the three works. C