1. Pastorale; By the Stream
2. March (Alla Marcia)
3. Barcarolle
4. Furiant
5. Menuet
6. Huoresque (Humoreska)
Christopher Field has a lifetime’s experience of singing and teaching stretching back to 1953 when he was a chorister at the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Later he won a choral exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge, a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music and an Arts Council of Great Britain award for postgraduate study with Frederick Husler in Switzerland.
His subsequent career as a schoolmaster at Dulwich College was combined with work as a concert baritone, choral conducting, and teaching singing and double bass. For many years a number of his teaching works have been included in the graded examination syllabuses of the leading examination boards.
A Little Suite for Hertl by Christopher Field includes six colourful and engaging miniatures for the intermediate bassist. Primarily in bass clef, with a few…
A Little Suite for Hertl by Christopher Field includes six colourful and engaging miniatures for the intermediate bassist. Primarily in bass clef, with a few short forays into low thumb position, these are inventive and accessible pieces which offer musical and technical challenges in equal measure, alongside inventive and supportive piano accompaniments.
The pieces can be played as a suite or singly.
“With sideways glances in the direction of Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances and ever popular Humoresque, these miniatures are dedicated to the memory of another great Czech musician, František Hertl, and his own set of Miniatures for double bass.” [Christopher Field]