SOMM Recordings
Bottesini: Quintets / Musicanti, Bosch
$20.99
Details
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Artist
- Leon Bosch, I Musicanti
- Format
- CD
- Label
- SOMM Recordings
- Released
- Jan 07, 2022
- Catalog #
- SOMMCD 0645
- UPC
- 748871064522
About
SOMM Recordings celebrates the bi-centenary of Giovanni Bottesini, a legendary double bass player and pioneering composer for the instrument, with First Recordings of his String Quintets Nos.2 (E minor) and No.3 (A major), performed by double bass virtuoso Leon Bosch and I Musicanti. A passionate, articulate champion for the double bass, Bottesini brought the instrument out of the orchestra and into the spotlight. His own prowess on the double bass and his music for it has seen him described as “the Paganini of the double bass”. Making its first appearance on album, the C minor Second String Quintet adopts the string quartet-with-second cello scoring employed by Schubert and Boccherini to create a work of rhythmic vitality, color and contrasting moods. Also receiving its premiere recording, the intricately designed Third String Quintet, in A major, employs the two-viola instrumentation preferred by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven and is, as Toby Deller observes in his booklet notes, “the more lyrically Romantic work of the three on this recording, with four sharply characterized movements”. Scored for string quartet and double bass, Bottesini’s Naples-composed First String Quintet, dedicated to Mercadante and familiarly known as the Gran Quintetto in C minor, completes the program. It seamlessly marries a venerable and inherited Italian instrumental tradition with the bel canto poetry of Italian romantic opera. Making their debuts on SOMM are double bassist Leon Bosch – of whom The Strad has said, he “demonstrates a natural affinity” with Bottesini; “his performances combine sonorous, lyrical, exquisitely nuanced playing with a remarkable command of the instrument’s bravura potential” – and the “flexible line-up of super-talented hand-picked performers” (Planet Hugill) he founded in 2013, I Musicanti.
Tracklist 12 tracks
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1 I. Moderato 10:19
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Moderato
- Duration
- 10:19
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Ensemble
- I Musicanti
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2 II. Minuetto: Allegro moderato 05:17
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Minuetto: Allegro moderato
- Duration
- 05:17
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Ensemble
- I Musicanti
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3 III. Andante sostenuto 05:22
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Andante sostenuto
- Duration
- 05:22
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Ensemble
- I Musicanti
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4 IV. Allegro vivo 05:22
- Track
- 4
- Title
- IV. Allegro vivo
- Duration
- 05:22
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Ensemble
- I Musicanti
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5 I. Allegro moderato 09:55
- Track
- 5
- Title
- I. Allegro moderato
- Duration
- 09:55
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer
- Leon Bosch
- Ensemble
- I Musicanti
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6 II. Scherzo: Allegro ma non troppo 05:05
- Track
- 6
- Title
- II. Scherzo: Allegro ma non troppo
- Duration
- 05:05
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer
- Leon Bosch
- Ensemble
- I Musicanti
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7 III. Adagio 06:04
- Track
- 7
- Title
- III. Adagio
- Duration
- 06:04
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer
- Leon Bosch
- Ensemble
- I Musicanti
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8 IV. Finale: Allegro con brio 04:28
- Track
- 8
- Title
- IV. Finale: Allegro con brio
- Duration
- 04:28
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Performer
- Leon Bosch
- Ensemble
- I Musicanti
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9 I. Allegro moderato 09:57
- Track
- 9
- Title
- I. Allegro moderato
- Duration
- 09:57
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Ensemble
- I Musicanti
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10 II. Scherzo: Allegro moderato 04:14
- Track
- 10
- Title
- II. Scherzo: Allegro moderato
- Duration
- 04:14
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Ensemble
- I Musicanti
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11 III. Andante 04:43
- Track
- 11
- Title
- III. Andante
- Duration
- 04:43
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Ensemble
- I Musicanti
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12 IV. Finale: Allegro vivace 06:29
- Track
- 12
- Title
- IV. Finale: Allegro vivace
- Duration
- 06:29
- Composer
- Giovanni Bottesini
- Ensemble
- I Musicanti