Album description
1 audio disc : digital, stereo. ; 12 cm.Signum: SIG X45-00.
For 2 double basses (1st and 4th works); for violin, viola, 2 horns and double bass obbligato (2nd work).
Gerhard Dzwiza, double bass (1st and 4th work) ; Rainer Mehne, violin, Chaim Solothurski, viola (2nd work) ; Gottfried Langenstein, John Stobart, horns (2nd-3rd works) ; Klaus Stoll, double bass.
Recorded in 1979 (1st and 4th works) and at Dominikanerkirche St. Paulus, Berlin, May 29-31, 1980 (2nd-3rd works).
K. Stoll performs on a double bass built by Giovanni Paolo Maggini of Brescia in 1610.
Selections previously released on analog discs as: Grandi duetti (Musica Viva: MV 30-1069, p1979), Grand duet for two double basses (Camerata: CMT 1031, 1980) (1st and 4th works) and Klaus Stoll, Kontrabass (Musica Viva: MV 30-1079, p1981) (2nd-3rd works).
Analog recording; digitally remastered.
Program notes in German, English and French (11 pages), inserted.
Contents: Gran duetto Nr. 1 / Giovanni Bottesini (25:24) --Divertimento G-dur / Johann Baptist Vanhal (14:08) -- 4 Stücke für 2 Hörner und Kontrabass accompagnato / Ignaz und Anton Böck (8:01) -- Gran duetto Nr. 2 / Giovanni Bottesini (27:13).
I. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Grande duetto, no. 1
II. Vanhal, Johann Baptist, 1739-1813. Divertimenti, horns (2), strings, W. III: G7, G major
III. Böck, Ignaz. Pièces, horns (2), cello, op. 6; arranged
IV. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Grande duetto, no. 2
Reviews
- 1. Fanfare, May-June 1983, p. 278 (MV 30-1069).
- 2. New Records, 12-1983, p. 15 (MV 30-1069).
Performers
| 1. | Dzwiza, Gerhard, 1938- |
| 2. | Langenstein, Gottfried, 1941- |
| 3. | Mehne, Rainer |
| 4. | Soloturskij, Chaim |
| 5. | Stobart, John |
| 6. | Stoll, Klaus, 1943- |