Teppo Hauta-aho - Alex’s Fantasy for unaccompanied double bass

Alex’s Fantasy was composed in 2019 and is dedicated to Alexander Heather, at the time a student at Wells Cathedral School in Somerset. In one extended movement and utilising the entire range of the solo double bass, this is a colourfully inventive work which explores a number of evocative and atmospheric sound worlds.

A rhapsodic approach, with musical and technical challenges in equal measure, offers much to the adventurous ...