| Product Code: | RMD1339 |
| Publishers Number: | RMD1339 |
| Language: | English |
| Condition: | New |
Along with his activities as a virtuoso double bassist, he wrote numerous works for the instrument and in 1982 created the Brussels Double Bass Quartet, with which played, for ten years, over 300 concerts with the Jeunesses Musicales and many others in Louisiana, Quebec, Ontario, France, Italy and Belgium. From 1987-2005 he was Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of La Chapelle des Minimes, where he conducted more than 160 cantatas as well as the great choral works of J.S. Bach.
He is also founder and Artistic Director of the Ensemble Orchestral de Bruxelles which he created in 1994 with fellow bassist Eric Demesmaeker and musicologist Richard Dehon.
3 Pieces for Solo Bass is a set of three colourful and inventive pieces by Jacques Vanherenthals for unaccompanied double bass which exploit the lyrical…
1. The Key to the Soul
Before reaching the soul, music passes through both heart and spirit. A universal language, it is spoken on all five continents but resounds even further, beyond our world.
By invitation from David Heyes, ‘The Key to the Soul’ is dedicated as homage to Tony Osborne, a composer, teacher and friend.
2. Improvisation
In the 1980s there were two Double Bass, Quartets in Brussels: the Brussels Double Bass, Quartet and the Maurice Aerts Quartet. Maurice was my colleague in the Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra during the 1970s before he became Solo Double Bass to the Opera La Monnaie.
Maurice took the initiative for the organisation of a big double bass virtuoso meeting in Gand in 1985, if I remember well. He invited his own quartet and also guests Franco Petracchi, Niels Pedersen and … Gary Karr. I remember, among others, that Franco played the Rossini Duetto for cello and double bass with France Springuel (a great Belgian cello virtuoso) and Gary played the Moses Fantasy with breath taking ease, making clown faces that made all listeners laugh. What an incredible virtuoso he is!
I composed this modest improvisation for him to celebrate his 80th birthday and send my deepest admiration.
3. David’s Wheel of Fortune
Wisdom sets in at the beginning of the sixth decade without, however, dimming the birthday boy’s ever-dynamic spirit of eternal youth. That is what I have tried to
describe in sixty seconds through the four octaves of the double-bass to mark the sixtieth birthday of the perfectly unique and indefatigable David Heyes.
One minute of resolute optimism. Four characteristic notes introduce a short joyful, fully self-assured cell that takes us through two octaves. The development becomes more eloquent, more virtuoso, as successive waves of triple-time phrases introduce new harmonics and resolve into “Happy Birthday”. The conclusion restates the four notes of the introduction as if to boldly complete the circle.
[Programme notes by Jacques Vanherenthals]
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