This edition includes piano accompaniments for both solo and orchestral tunings, but the piece can also be played without accompaniment.

Luis Guillermo Pérez writes: "Sunset, originally written as a jazz-style solo for double bass, is inspired by the music of American bassist-composer, Lloyd Goldstein. Written in ternary form (A-B-A) starting with a minor third motif that appears twice in several bars of the piece, contrasting the middle section which is played pizzicato, with a few remote chords in the piano accompaniment, allowing a free execution of the soloist, who returns to the initial music, this time played arco, to finish the piece with a repeated motif in the final phrase. Sunset was written at the end of 7 July 2020, between the afternoon and evening."

RM1131 Sunset for double bass and guitar (solo and orchestral tuning)

Luis Guillermo Pérez was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela in 1954. He graduated as a classical guitarist in the “Vicente Emilio Sojo” Conservatory in 1980 and began his double bass studies with Volmar Laubach in 1978, and later with Joel Novoa at the “Simón Bolívar” Conservatory in Caracas, in 1984. He belongs to the first generation of Youth Orchestras in his region.

Luis has been Principal Bass at the Orquesta Sinfónica de Lara from 1989 until the present day and has participated as a guest double bassist with the Orquesta Simón Bolivar on their tour to France “Festival Radio France” in 1986. He was the assistant double bass in the Orquesta de los X Juegos Panamericanos (Indianapolis, 1987), in the 50th anniversary of the Orquesta Sinfónica (1992), with the Bach Academy from Stuttgart conducted by Helmuth Rilling (1994), and took part in the premiere of “A Flowering Tree” by John Adams in Vienna (2006).

Luis has worked as a double bass professor in Venezuela and in other Latin American countries, now teaching in the Universidad Centro Occidental Lisandro Alvarado UCLA and in the “Vicente Emilio Sojo” Conservatory.

He has composed pieces for guitar including Concerto No.1 alongside didactic pieces, studies and ensembles for double bass. He has arranged for different groups and musical genres, working especially with the Boston String Academy.