db-concertos
The pieces with piano accompaniment are always included with a version in the sounding key for the double bass in orchestral tuning and a transposed version to accompany the double bass in solo tuning.
You can rent the orchestral material for the offered concertos
here.
K. D. von Dittersdorf: “Concerto in Es” (score)
This is an arrangement in score form of the original voices of the standard concerto which is mostly confessed as concerto in E major and published in this publishing company as concerto No. 1. The voices are taken over with all evident mistakes 1 to 1 from the original and allow so many conclusions for own interpretation regardless of the publishing after which one plays. Evident mistakes or contradictions which strike mostly only in the confrontation of the single voices are specially emphasised.
as printed sheet music (+ shipping)
Order no. S 104: €16
as a pdf via download / mail
Order no. S 104pdf: 8 €
J. B. Vanhal: "Concerto for double bass und orchestra D-Major"
One of the standard works of the double bass literature. The double bass voice is of course in C major key, the piano score is very simply held and exist both in D major key and C major key for solo or orchestral tuning.
as printed sheet music (+ shipping)
Order no. P 104: € 26
as a pdf via download / mail
Order no. P 104pdf: 13 €
K. D. von Dittersdorf: Concerto E Major for Contra Bass
The standard test play concert of the double-bass players (no beginning pro goes past at this!) in unabridged version and under retention of the established key in sounding E major. Attached piano accompaniments in E major and in D major key. The orchestra part is available on loan (see under double bass concerts).
as printed sheet music (+ shipping)
Order no. P 112: € 28
as a pdf via download / mail
Order no. P 112pdf: 14 €
K. D. von Dittersdorf: Concerto A-Major for Double Bass
A further concerto by the composer of the standard concerto for double bass. This one can make in this slightly shortened version absolutely the rank disputable to him, because it lies simply better and puts outside more the chanty qualities of the double bass by use of the higher positions. Of course there are also for this concerto two piano voices for the different double bass tunes.
as printed sheet music (+ shipping)
Order no. P 113: € 28
as a pdf via download / mail
Order no. P 113pdf: 14 €
Th. A. Findeisen: Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra No 1 Op. 15
Long time any more available and wrongfully nearly forgotten, now this concert is there again to manage to grab his lawful place beside the concerts of Bottesini and Koussewitzky. It is a late-romantic music with relatively big orchestra occupation what mostly brings problems with deep solo instruments. Here, nevertheless, the instrumentation is handled very sensitively. And although the first mouvement is in minor key, the concert has all together a positive, happy mood. In particular the third mouvement headlined with the unusual tempo name "lustig" (= "jocularly") is full of irony and will surely bring a good mood to the listeners.
as printed sheet music (+ shipping)
Order no. P 114: € 38
as a pdf via download / mail
Order no. P 114pdf: 19 €
Th. A. Findeisen: „Carnevalsscenen“ op. 12 for Double Bass and Orchestra
The period of creation of the "Carnevalsscenen" Op. 12 is given at the end of the original handwritten score with " 3rd - 7th August ". This concert piece for doublebass and orchestra which takes about 10-minutes (with cadenza) is subtitled with " meeting, greeting and train of the masks " and Findeisen headlines in the score only the Allegro con brio part as " train of the masks ". The piece begins with a slow introduction what corresponds probably to the "meeting". Unfortunately, no cadenza of Findeisen is enclosed to the score, so that the editor has made an own one from the material of the solo voice and he allows to communicate the greeting (soloists) with the gathering (orchestra) at the end of the cadenza a little bit, before it comes then cheerfully buoyantly to the move.
as printed sheet music (+ shipping)
Order no. P 116: € 20
as a pdf via download / mail
Order no. P 116pdf: 10 €
Theodor Albin Findeisen: „Concerto No. 2 for Double bass and Orchestra“ Op. 25
About the second concerto for double bass and orchestra by Th. A. Findeisen is even less known than about the first. It exists also only the piano version witch is published by the PRObass publishing house. It is dedicated to Kurt Barth, who was musical director in Zwickau, Germany. The piano part is marked by the words "in one mouvement". However it can also be regarded as several movements, where the different parts are put together without break. It begins with a majestic Allegro with the remark "fresh and rhapsodic," which opens in an andante molto where the solo bass can prove his singing skills. Then follows an Allegro leggiero witch comes back to the majestic opening theme. It comes to an end with a virtuosic Molto Allegro quasi presto, that functions as a final stretta movement witch leads again to the exploding majestic opening theme of the beginning. The piano reduction has been re-orchestrated for a small orchestra by Daniel Chiva Sanz. The orchestral material is available on loan (see Double Bass Concertos).
as printed sheet music (+ shipping)
Order no. P 118: € 20
as a pdf via download / mail
Order no. P 118pdf: 10 €