Album description
1 audio disc : digital, stereo. ; 12 cm.Virtuosi: MMP CD 1009.
Original works and arrangements for double bass and piano.
Principally arranged by Duncan McTier.
Duncan McTier, double bass ; Kathron Sturrock, piano.
Recorded at University of Surrey Music Department, Guildford, England, March 7-8, 1989.
Issued also as: Tarantella (Black Box Music: BBM 1004, p1998).
Contents: Fantasy on La Sonnambula / Giovanni Bottesini (8:53) -- Une larme pour basse / Gioacchino Rossini (2:54) -- Liebeslied / Fritz Kreisler (3:27) -- Après une rêve / Gabriel Fauré (3:46) -- Pièce en forme de habanera / Maurice Ravel (3:16) -- Rêverie / Giovanni Bottesini (5:25) -- Spring song / Frank Bridge (2:18) -- Melody / Giovanni Bottesini (7:24) -- Valse miniature op. 1 no. 2 / Serge Koussevitzky (2:44) -- Vocalise op. 34 no. 14 / Sergei Rachmaninov (6:15) -- Praeludium op. 32 no. 1 (3:27) ; Scherzo op. 32 no. 2 (4:40) ; Intermezzo op. 9 no. 1 (3:18) ; Tarantella op. 9 no. 2 (4:41) / Reinhold Glière.
I. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Sonnambula
II. Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. Péchés de vieillesse. Album pour piano, violin, violoncelle, harmonium et cor. Larme; arranged
III. Kreisler, Fritz, 1875-1962. Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen. Liebesleid; arranged
IV. Fauré, Gabriel, 1845-1924. Après un rêve; arranged
V. Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937. Vocalise en forme d’habanera; arranged
VI. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Rêverie
VII. Bridge, Frank, 1879-1941. Short pieces. Spring song; arranged
VIII. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Romanza patética
IX. Koussevitzky, Serge, 1874-1951. Morceaux, double bass, piano, op. 1. Valse miniature
X. Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943. Romansy, op. 34. Vocalise; arranged
XI. Glière, Reinhold Morit͡sevich, 1875-1956. Pieces, double bass, piano, op. 32
XII. Glière, Reinhold Morit͡sevich, 1875-1956. Pieces, double bass, piano, op. 9
Reviews
- 1. International Society of Bassists, vol. 20 no. 1 (Winter 1995), p. 63.
- 2. The Strad, February 1995, p. 201.
- 3. Double bassist, #7 (Autumn-Winter 1998), p. 65 (as Tarantella)
Performers
1. | McTier, Duncan, 1954- |
2. | Sturrock, Kathron, 1948- |