Klaus Stoll Cadenzas for Double Bass

Description

Preface

Believe me: all thirty-five years of attending Virtuosos who decorated their concertos by immense cadenzas to show technical know-how made me think of how curious a creature the typical bass-soloist is. I hardly ever yet caught one who was aware of the aesthetics or the style of our concerto’s provenience, or just about, what “a cadenza” means. In my view it is the real chance and challenge to open a window for focusing on the Contrabasso’s attributes and sound facets, and this in respect to the ancient, convex-shaped bow, the familiar one until the end of 18^th century.

The present selected cadenzas rank from Johann Sperger’s or Franz Anton Keyper’s fame until Domenico Dragonetti’s early years, after he had abandoned Venice. They were the glorious protagonists of the “Golden Age” of our instrument, appearing on three-, four- or five-stringed basses on all European stages, inspiring about a dozen of composers who contributed works, bringing the treasure of pre-classical and classic concertante works to a number of forty-four in all. The present edited bouquet of fifteen cadenzas on nine concertos will introduce my own happy experiences from performing, accompanied by Chamber- or Symphonic Orchestras, which simply earned acceptance and sympathy for their brief and sometimes ‘blinking-eye’ moments —- but try constantly regarding each concertos individual quality.

Klaus Stoll

Berlin, 29 October 2015

Klaus Stoll Cadenzas

Content:

Cappuzzi, Antonio
Cadenzas for Double Bass Concerto (en Fa)

Cappuzzi, Antonio
Cadenzas for Double Bass Concerto (en Re)

Cimadoro, Giovanni Battista
Cadenza for Double Bass Concerto

Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von
Cadenzas (1) for Double Bass Concerto no 2

Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von
Cadenzas (2) for Double Bass Concerto no 2

Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von
Andante from Sinfonia Concertante for Double Bass and Viola

Dragonetti, Domenico
Cadenza for A celebrated concerto (en La)

Hoffmeister, Franz Anton
Cadenza for Double Bass Concerto

Keyper, Franz
Cadenza for Rondo in Double Bass Concerto no 2 (or Romance and Rondo)

Pichl, Václav
Cadenzas for Double Bass Concerto in D

Vanhal, Johann Baptist
Cadenzas for Double Bass Concerto