The ‚Easy Concert Pieces’ series presents a varied selection of easy concert pieces for double bass and piano from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods through to the modern era. To facilitate choosing individual pieces for performance and auditions at music schools, competitions or examinations these pieces have been ordered according to level of musical and technical difficulty.Book 1 (ED 22551) contains pieces in half and first position. Pieces in each position and some using position changes are presented from each era. Simple techniques such as portato, staccato and legato bowing are introduced along with pizzicato, using rudimentary dynamics ranging from piano to forte, crescendo and decrescendo and simple phrasing. The pieces selected here are varied in character with memorable tunes, a few different time signatures and simple rhythms.

Contents: Luis de Milán (ca. 1500-1561): Pavane, Cesare Negri (ca. 1535-1604): Spagnoletto, Valentin Haussmann (ca. 1560-1614): Alla Tedesca, John Eccles (1668-1735): Menuett Christoph Graupner (1683-1760): Bourrée, Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Spring from „The Four Seasons, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Menuett, Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747-1800): The Moon Has Risen, Giuseppe Tommaso Giordani (1751-1798): Minuetto, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Allegro, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Ode to Joy from Symphony No. 9, Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889): AllegrettoJohannes Brahms (1833-1879): Lullaby, Alexander Borodin (1833-1887): Prince Igor, Pjotr I. Tschaikowsky (1840-1893): Swan Lake, Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904): Largo, from Symphony No. 9 ”From the New World”, Gustav Mahler (1869-1911): Theme from Symphony No. 1, Friedrich Radermacher (*1924): A Serious Matter, Friedrich Radermacher (*1924): All Is Well That Ends Well!