Teppo Hauta-aho - Homage à Koussevitsky for unaccompanied double bass

Homage à Koussevitsky was composed in 2008, inspired by the Paris Double Bass Convention that year, and is an impressive, inventive, and colourful one-movement work for the advanced bassist.

The piece is episodic, emphasizing the lyrical, tonal, and timbral qualities available to the 21st-century double bassist, and employs the entire range of the solo double bass. There are musical and...