Description

Tony Osborne’s Concerto for Four is a magnificent and monumental extended one-movement work for double bass quartet and piano, also available with string orchestra …accompaniment. A rhythmic energy and powerful momentum drive the music from the first note to the last, contrasting jazz idioms with modern styles and English pastoral moods.
A wealth of expressive moods and emotions contrast music of a more dramatic and driven nature alongside musical and technical challenges for each bassist, who perform as a quartet, in various duos and as soloists.
Tony Osborne’s music, beloved by bassists and audiences everywhere, is instantly appealing and this amazing work, dating from the late 1990s, will delight his fans throughout the world. Fizzing with rhythmic vitality and spirit, this is a piece which can be performed equally in the recital room with piano accompaniment or in the concert hall with string orchestra.
If you are looking for a piece to astound your audience and dispel the elephantine image of the double bass, this may be just the piece you have been waiting for. Concerto for Four with piano accompaniment is also available in solo tuning, alongside editions with string orchestra in both tunings.