David Heyes: Legend No.1 'Ukko Ylijumala' for double bass quartet

  About the Composer Ukko is the God of the sky, weather, harvest, and thunder in Finnish mythology. In folk poems and prayers, he is also given the epithet Ylijumala, which means Supreme God, probably because of his status as the most highly regarded God and his traditional domain are in the heavens. About the Composition David Heyes writes: "This quartet was composed for my younger students at Wells Cathedral School, all aged from 11-14 years, and for a concert to celebrate the music of the legendary Finnish bassist-composer, Teppo Hauta-aho to whom the quartet is dedicated, on Friday 3 May 2019. I wanted the piece to have a Finnish theme or influence and Teppo suggested the title which I thought was perfect. Recently I have composed several fast and rhythmic quartets for the junior basses and wanted to write something which was much slower and more atmospheric to develop different playing skills. Each part is carefully graded for a specific ability level, with Bass 1 playing in low