Album description
1 audio disc : digital, stereo. ; 12 cm.Hungaraton: HCD 31694.
Hungarian State Orchestra ; Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor (1st-8th works) ; Elisabetta Devescovi, harp (9th-12th works) ; Gergely Járdányi, double bass.
Recorded in the Budapest City Council Hall, January 6-11, 1994.
Edition recorded: Giovanni Bottesini’s complete works for double bass, volume 4 (Budapest : Akkord Music Publishers).
Program notes in English, French, German and Hungarian (17 pages), inserted.
Contents: Bolero (9:35) -- Elegia (5:24) -- Tarantella (5:54) -- Air (5:34) -- Introduzione e gavotta (5:48) -- Romanza drammatica (8:53) -- Allegretto capriccio (4:02) -- Contra-bass polka (7:37) -- Romanza nell’ Elisire d’amore (3:18) -- Serenata de Il barbiere di Siviglia (1:27) -- La sonnambula. Finale (2:03) -- Aria de Il trovatore (2:18).
I. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Introduzione e bolero, double bass, piano; 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. Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Suites, orchestra, BWV 1068, D major. Air; arranged
V. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Introduzione e gavotta, double bass, piano, A major; arranged
VI. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Romanza drammatica; arranged
VII. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Allegretto capriccio; arranged
VIII. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Contrabass polka
IX. Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848. Elisir d’amore. Furtiva lagrima; arranged
X. Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. Barbiere di Siviglia. Se il mio nome saper; arranged
XI. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Sonnambula. Andante cantabile; arranged
XII. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Air d’il Trovatore; arranged
Reviews
- 1. Double bassist, no. 10 (Autumn 1999), p. 65.
Performers
| 1. | Devescovi, Erzsébet |
| 2. | Járdányi, Gergely, 1957- |
| 3. | Magyar Állami Hangversenyzenekar |
| 4. | Morandi, Pier Giorgio |