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Bottesini: Music For Double Bass And Piano Vol 2
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Details
- Composer
- BOTTESINI, GIOVANNI
- Artist
- Quarrington, Burashko
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Naxos
- Released
- Mar 25, 2008
- Catalog #
- 8557042
- UPC
- 747313204229
About
Giovanni Bottesini was not only among the most famous double bass players of his time, but was also a conductor of some distinction and a composer. He conducted the first performance of Verdi's opera Aida in Cairo in 1871 and won success with some, at least, of his own ten operas. Known to some as the Paganini of the double bass, he significantly extended the technical possibilities of the instrument.
"The Duetto for two basses is probably the earliest and most etude-like work on this disc, from a set of three dedicated to Bottesini’s teacher, Luigi Rossi. The Concerto No. 2, sometimes referred to as in A minor, or in B minor, for complicated reasons arising from old-fashioned tuning conventions, is a fully mature work, from the well proportioned, somewhat laconic first movement, through the simply singing second, to the third, driven by a rhythmic figure typical of the polonaise (and the Cuban bolero).
Other selections emphasize the essential vocality of Bottesini’s inspiration, most explicitly in the Bellini Fantasia, but stylistically so in the pairings of bass, always singing, now with clarinet, now with soprano. The anonymous texts are routine bourgeois expressions of popular Romantic sentiment; but in the case of Tutto che il mondo the music is very well known - Chopin’s Etude Op. 25, No. 7. The Bach transcription is perfectly straightforward. Can there be any instrument without a transcription of this piece? The Adagio melancolico projects that characteristic elegiac mood, demanding a virtuosity of feeling at least as much as of just technique, that Bottesini perfected for many of his stand-alone solo pieces."
Jeffrey L. Stokes
"The Duetto for two basses is probably the earliest and most etude-like work on this disc, from a set of three dedicated to Bottesini’s teacher, Luigi Rossi. The Concerto No. 2, sometimes referred to as in A minor, or in B minor, for complicated reasons arising from old-fashioned tuning conventions, is a fully mature work, from the well proportioned, somewhat laconic first movement, through the simply singing second, to the third, driven by a rhythmic figure typical of the polonaise (and the Cuban bolero).
Other selections emphasize the essential vocality of Bottesini’s inspiration, most explicitly in the Bellini Fantasia, but stylistically so in the pairings of bass, always singing, now with clarinet, now with soprano. The anonymous texts are routine bourgeois expressions of popular Romantic sentiment; but in the case of Tutto che il mondo the music is very well known - Chopin’s Etude Op. 25, No. 7. The Bach transcription is perfectly straightforward. Can there be any instrument without a transcription of this piece? The Adagio melancolico projects that characteristic elegiac mood, demanding a virtuosity of feeling at least as much as of just technique, that Bottesini perfected for many of his stand-alone solo pieces."
Jeffrey L. Stokes
Tracklist 11 tracks
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1 I. Andantino 04:05
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Andantino
- Duration
- 04:05
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer
- Joel Quarrington, Harold Robinson
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2 II. Presto 07:53
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Presto
- Duration
- 07:53
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer
- Joel Quarrington, Harold Robinson
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3 I. Moderato 05:28
- Track
- 3
- Title
- I. Moderato
- Duration
- 05:28
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer
- Joel Quarrington, Andrew Burashko
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4 II. Andante 04:39
- Track
- 4
- Title
- II. Andante
- Duration
- 04:39
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer
- Andrew Burashko, Joel Quarrington
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5 III. Finale: Allegro 04:15
- Track
- 5
- Title
- III. Finale: Allegro
- Duration
- 04:15
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer
- Andrew Burashko, Joel Quarrington
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6 Adagio melancolico ed appassionato, "Élégie par Ernst 06:35
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Adagio melancolico ed appassionato, "Élégie par Ernst
- Duration
- 06:35
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer
- Andrew Burashko, Joel Quarrington
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7 Duet for Clarinet and Double Bass 09:43
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Duet for Clarinet and Double Bass
- Duration
- 09:43
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer
- James Campbell, Joel Quarrington, Andrew Burashko
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8 Fantasia on Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda 11:00
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Fantasia on Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda
- Duration
- 11:00
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer
- Joel Quarrington, Andrew Burashko
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9 Une bouche aimee 05:14
- Track
- 9
- Title
- Une bouche aimee
- Duration
- 05:14
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer
- Monica Whicher, Joel Quarrington, Andrew Burashko
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10 Tutto che il mondo serra (trans. of Etude No. 19 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 7 by Chopin) 04:47
- Track
- 10
- Title
- Tutto che il mondo serra (trans. of Etude No. 19 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 7 by Chopin)
- Duration
- 04:47
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer
- Monica Whicher, Joel Quarrington, Andrew Burashko
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11 Bach - Overture (Suite) No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air, "Air on the G String" 05:13
- Track
- 11
- Title
- Bach - Overture (Suite) No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air, "Air on the G String"
- Duration
- 05:13
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer
- Andrew Burashko, Joel Quarrington