| 作曲者 | Robin Holloway (b. 1943) |
| タイトル | Sonata for Solo Double Bass op. 83b |
| 出版社 | Boosey & Hawkes（ブージー＆ホークス） |
| 楽器編成 | Double Bass |
| 品番 | 9790060134692 |
| 難易度 | 上級 |
| 形状 | 12 ページ・Saddle stitching |
| 演奏時間 | 20分 |
| 作曲年 | 1999年 |
| 出版年 | 2018年 |
| 出版番号 | BH 13469 |
| ISMN | 979-0060134692 |
| ISBN | 9781784543921 |
This three-movement piece of 1999 is an extra pressing from Holloway’s Concerto for Double Bass and Small Orchestra written three years before. The concerto’s scoring is very spare; its soloist holds the principal line almost continuously; fashioning a solo sonata was more transcription than composition, though there is some new material too. I – con moto non allegro, “with stealthy undeviating steadiness” – is a modal journey based upon all the white notes in turn, in the order A, F, D, G, E, C, B (the climax), and back to A. II is a jazzy pizzicato scherzo, marked “tight/precise/footling”, alternating with a fluid lyrical section played col arco.III is more sectional and fantasia-like; a meditative cadenza introduction, a slowish expressive melody, a pizzicato valse-episode, a vigorous allegro work-out, expanding into a slow eloquent ending that ties the finale’s cadenza-opening into the close of the first movement.
Scherzo - Finale