July 31, 2024

Fletcher Hall at 4:30pm

School of Music Double Bass students take the stage for a late afternoon recital filled with music by Schubert, Beach, Koussevitzky, Bottesini, Hertl and Hindemith. 

Sonata in A minor, D. 821 “Arpeggione”  

-Franz Schubert (1791 – 1828)  

I. Allegro moderato  

Aidan Lobenstein, bass 

Shannon Hesse, piano  

Double Bass Concerto, Op. 3 

-Serge Koussevitzky (1874 – 1951)  

II. Andante  

Austin Beck, bass 

Shannon Hesse, piano  

Double Bass Concerto No. 2 in B minor, 1845  

- Giovanni Bottesini (1821 – 1889) 

II. Andante  

Gregory Galand, bass 

Akiko Konishi, piano  

Sonata for Viola da Gamba in D major No. 2, BWV 1028  

-Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)  

I. Adagio 

II. Allegro 

John Woodward, bass 

Shannon Hesse, piano  

Sonata for Double Bass and Piano, 1949  

-Paul Hindemith (1895 – 1963)  

III. Molto adagio  

Jo Arnold, bass 

Akiko Konishi, piano  

Romance, Op. 23 

-Amy Beach (1867 – 1944) 

Anna Mears, bass 

Shannon Hesse, piano  

Reverie, 1879  
          -Giovanni Bottesini (1821 – 1889)  

Burleska, 1968  

-František Hertl (1906 – 1973)  

Brennen Taggart, bass 

Akiko Konishi, piano