New Heights is a collection of five inventive and enjoyable double bass duets by American bassist-composer Michael Montgomery. Bass 1 plays entirely in harmonics and bass 2 is in bass clef and in the lower register of the instrument enabling them to be performed by the teacher and a student, two students or friends.

Ideal as recital repertoire or study material, each duet offers fun and effective musical and technical challenges in equal measure, and could be repeated with each bassist chang...