Teppo Hauta-aho - Dan’s Story for unaccompanied double bass

Dan’s Story is in one extended movement but in several defined sections which explore a wealth of colours and textures available to the modern bassist. The piece makes a feature of long melodies played in harmonics, ending with a section employing double stops and false harmonics in the lower positions.

Dan’s Story is lyrical and melodic, in a contemporary framework and idiom, with opportunities to demonstrate the colourful and in...