Bottesini: Double Bass Concertino in C minor / Elegy No. 1 in D major / etc
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GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Double Bass Concertino in C minor / Elegy No. 1 in D major / etc
Thomas Martin (double bass) Francesca Petracchi (double bass) / London Symphony Orchestra / Matthew Gibson
[ Naxos Bottesini Collection Vol 2 / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 1 September 2008
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Known to his contemporaries as the Paganini of the double bass, Giovanni Bottesini significantly extended the technical possibilities of the instrument both as a composer and virtuoso soloist. After the Prelude to Ero e Leandro, Bottesini's greatest operatic masterpiece, this disc continues with the most popular of his compositions for the instrument among bassists today, the Concertino in C minor. In this work virtuosity is always at the service of musical ends. The rarely performed Duo Concertante for Cello and Double Bass on Themes from Bellini's I Puritani makes considerable technical demands of the soloists.
Tracks:
Ero e Leandro: Prelude
Double Bass Concertino in C minor (version of Double Bass Concerto No. 2 for double bass and strings)
Il diavolo della notte: Sinfonia
Passione amorose (orch. G. Veneri)
Elegy No. 1 in D major (arr. for double bass and orchestra)
Ali Baba: Overture
Duo concertant on themes from Bellini's I Puritani
