PARTITIONS GRATUITES :
- Basse

4 Contra Basses

SKU: BT.YE0055

Composed by Serge Lancen. Set (Score and Parts). Yorke Edition #YE0055. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YE0055).

For 4 double basses. A very short quartet suitable as an encore. Only the top part is advanced. Recorded Berlin Philharmonic Quartet (Camerata). 2 solo DB with 2 Orchestra DB.

Grade: Varying.

3 Double Basses

SKU: BT.YE0074

Composed by Walton. Set (Score and Parts). Yorke Edition #YE0074. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YE0074).

Three double basses. 'Seven short movements in contrasted tonal style. Lovely straight forward writing...useful in bringing pupils together'. Music Teacher. Few difficulties. Score and parts.

Grade: Easy.

Double Bass Quartet

SKU: BT.YE0036

Composed by Joseph Lauber. Classical. Set (Score and Parts). Yorke Edition #YE0036. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YE0036).

Four movements, top part advanced. Several recordings and many broadcasts. Duration c.13'.

Programme Notes:

The Swiss composer Joseph Lauber was born at Ruswil near Lucerne in 1864. After studying with Heger in Zürich and Rheinberger in Munich, Lauber worked with Diémer and Massenet in Paris. With Massenet he learnt a great deal about orchestration, a subject that he subsequently taught until the end of his life at the Geneva conservatoire as well as piano and composition. He died in 1952.

Lauber's 193 catalogued works are many and varied. He wrote for all instruments and in every genre except oratorio and opera. Among his output areseveral works for double bass, most written for Prof. Hans Fryba, a personal friend with whom he worked as a double bass and piano recital duo. Fryba was one of the leading players in Europe in his day and was principal of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. First was Theme and Variations (1936-7) and a Rhapsodie with orchestra (1937). Three Walzes followed in 1939, a Gavotte and Gigue, a Sonata and then in 1943 Fantasie de Concert, written for the Geneva Competition. Four Caprices appeared in 1942, the same date as the Quartet for double basses which was dedicated to Fryba and written for the Berlin Philharmonic Double Bass Quartet, one of the first ever such ensembles to exist.

The Quartet for double basses was revived by Klaus Stoll in the 1970s for the Philharmonic Double Bass Quartet at that time to play. It was subsequently published in 1975 by Yorke Edition by kind permission of the composer's son Edmund Lauber.

Rodney Slatford 2004

Arranged by Deborah Greenblatt. Bass Duet. For 2 double basses. Tunes for Two. Classical. Tune book. Standard Notation. 68 pages. Published by Greenblatt and Seay

3 Double Basses - Grade 3-5

SKU: BT.YE0073

Composed by Angel Pena. Set (Score and Parts). Yorke Edition #YE0073. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YE0073).

'This delightful divertimento is a typically excellent production of Yorke Edition'. Notes. Bravura, three movements. Recorded New Colophonium Bass Quartet (MusicaViva).

Grade: Moderate.

Arranged by Deborah Greenblatt. For fiddle. Enjoy these 32 traditional Irish tunes arranged for two basses, with chords for back-up players included. Irish Fiddle. Book. Published by Greenblatt and Seay.

Four Double Basses

SKU: ST.YE0036

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

ISBN 9790570590360.

Arranged by Deborah Greenblatt. Bass Duet. For 2 double basses. Tunes for Two. Classical. Tune book. Standard Notation. 66 pages. Published by Greenblatt and Seay