(Volume 1 - 35 Easy Pieces). By Various. For Double Bass, Piano. Cassette tape. Standard notation. Published by Yorke Edition

Double Bass and Piano

SKU: BT.YE0032

Composed by Gordon Jacob. Exam Material. Book Only. Yorke Edition #YE0032. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YE0032).

A petite concerto for Double bass with three well-contrasted movements. This is an enjoyable piece with nothing unmanageable for a moderately advanced player. A versatile piece for use in music club programmes as well as ABRSMDouble Bass Syllabus. Orchestral material for strings with optional percussion (1 player: glock, triangle, tambourine, xylophone).

Double Bass and Piano

SKU: ST.YE0091

Composed by Bryan Kelly. String music. Yorke Edition #YE0091. Published by Yorke Edition (ST.YE0091).

ISBN 9790570590919.

Double Bass

SKU: BT.YE0069

Composed by Giovanni Bottesini. Book Only. Yorke Edition #YE0069. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YE0069).

'Should be in every bass player's library'. Making Music.

Grade: Advanced.

Viola and Double Bass

SKU: ST.YE0018

Composed by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf. String music. Yorke Edition #YE0018. Published by Yorke Edition (ST.YE0018).

ISBN 9790570590186.

Double Bass and Piano

SKU: BT.YE0012

Composed by Dare. Book Only. Yorke Edition #YE0012. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YE0012).

'An easy piece... Suitable for players who have been studying for about eighteen months'. Music Teacher. Dare was a Scottish composer and an amateur bassist.

Four Double Basses

SKU: ST.YE0036

Composed by Joseph Lauber. String music. Yorke Edition #YE0036. Published by Yorke Edition (ST.YE0036).

ISBN 9790570590360.

Cello and Double Bass

SKU: BT.YBB1406

Composed by Ignaz Josef Pleyel. Book Only. Yorke Edition #YBB1406. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YBB1406).

Four Double Basses

SKU: ST.YE0063

Composed by Wilhelm Fitzenhagen. String music. Yorke Edition #YE0063. Published by Yorke Edition (ST.YE0063).

ISBN 9790570590636.

Double Bass Quintet - advanced

SKU: BT.YE0084

Composed by David Collins. Set (Score and Parts). Yorke Edition #YE0084. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YE0084).

Probably the first double bass quintet published. An ingenious work by a young British composer, received enthusiastically at its Manchester premiere. Musical re-creations of German impressionist paintings. Advanced. Ideal forconservatoiretraining. Duration c. 10'.

Grade: Advanced.

Double Bass and Other Instruments

SKU: BT.YBB1461

Composed by Herbert Baumann. Set (Score and Parts). Yorke Edition #YBB1461. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YBB1461).

Trombone, Cello

SKU: BT.YE0001

Composed by Gioachino Rossini. Book Only. Yorke Edition #YE0001. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YE0001).

It was a chance visit to a second hand bookshop in Nottingham that set me on the trail of Rossini's now well-known Duetto for cello and double bass. But the story begins earlier than that. In the 1960s I was studying the double bass at the Royal College of Music with Adrian Beers, who was at that time principal of the English Chamber Orchestra, on the front desk of the Philharmonia Orchestra, and a member of the Melos Ensemble of London (then one of the leading ensembles of the world). I was working on the 'Dragonetti Concerto', as most young players do, and I wanted to find out a bit about it. My teacher said he thought the autograph manuscript might be in the British Library,which was all the encouragement I needed to secure a pass to the Reading Room so I could go and see for myself.

There, sure enough, I found a large collection of Dragonetti's autograph manuscripts, together with other bound volumes relating to his life. The papers had been lovingly collated and annotated by Vincent Novello, one of Dragonetti's closest friends, then deposited in the library before his departure to Italy in 1848, two years after Dragonetti's death. One of the volumes included a lot of letters about various engagements and music festivals, copies of orders for strings Dragonetti wanted from Italy, details about paintings he wanted to buy, and numerous invitations to private functions. The manuscript of the 'Dragonetti Concerto', of course, wasn't among the papers â?? we now know it to have been written by Edouard Nanny a century or so later.

One name that came up regularly in the documents was that of Sir George Smart. Smart had been a violinist in Salomon's orchestra and had played for Haydn at his London concerts in the 1790s. As a child he had learnt much about music from his father, who had in turn been present at many of Handel's rehearsals when he was preparing some of his major works for the first time. Smart was also a fine keyboard player, becoming organist of the Chapel Royal in 1822. As a conductor.