Album description
1 audio disc : digital ; 12 cm.Société nouvelle d’enregistrement: SNE-581-CD.
For double bass, with 2 violins, viola and cello (1st-3rd, 7th works) and with piano (4th-6th works); originally for double bass and orchestra (1st work), for double bass and piano (2nd-3rd works), for cello (6th work) and for violin and orchestra (7th work).
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Arranged by Zbigniew Borowicz (1st-3rd, 7th works).
Quatuor à cordes Bottesini (Elaine Marcil, Marie-Josée Arpin, violin ; Jutta Puchammer Sédillot, viola ; Jeanne de Chantal Marcil, cello) (1st-3rd, 7th works) ; Dale Bartlett, piano (4th-6th works) ; Zbigniew Borowicz, double bass.
Recorded at the Church of the Nativité de LaPrairie, Montréal, July 1992.
Program notes in French and biographies in French and English ([8] pages), inserted.
Contents: Concerto no 2 en si mineur (16:30) ; Elégie en ré majeur (5:26) ; Tarentelle (5:26) ; Fantaisie sur des airs de l’opéra Lucia di Lammermoor de G. Donizetti (10:16) ; Variations sur l’air Nel cor più non mi sento de l’opéra La bella Molinara de G. Paisiello (5:43) ; Rêverie (3:47) / Giovanni Bottesini -- Introduction et variations sur la corde de sol sur un thème de l’opéra Mosè in Egitto de G. Rossini / Niccolo Paganini (9:08).
I. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Concertos, double bass, orchestra, no. 2, B minor; arranged
II. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Elegies, double bass, piano, D major; arranged
III. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Tarantellas, double bass, piano, A minor; arranged
IV. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Fantasia sulla Lucia di Lammermoor di G. Donizetti
V. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Nel cor più non mi sento
VI. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Rêverie
VII. Paganini, Nicolò, 1782-1840. Sonata a preghiera; arranged
Performers
| 1. | Bartlett, Dale, 1936-2013 |
| 2. | Borowicz, Zbigniew |
| 3. | Quatuor à cordes Bottesini |