Album description
1 audio disc : digital ; 12 cm.Koch/Schwann: 3-1338-2.
For double bass and orchestra (5th work).
First movement is the Andante from the Rossini fantasia (1st work).
Wolfgang Güttler (1st work), Klaus Stoll (1st-2nd works), Wolfgang Harrer (3rd-4th works), Gary Karr (5th work), double basses ; Jörg Baumann (2nd work), cello ; Neue Wiener Solisten ; Gert Meditz, conductor (3rd-4th works) ; Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin ; Matthias Bamert (1st work), Uros Lajovic (5th work), conductors.
Recorded in Berlin, November 1985 (1st work), September 1987 (2nd work), 1986 (3rd-4th works) and November 1979 (5th work).
Phonogram dates: 1986 (1st work), 1990 (2nd work), 1989 (3rd-4th works), 1980 (5th work).
Program notes in German, English and French ([7] pages), inserted.
Contents: Grande concerto in quattro tempi for two double-basses / Giovanni Bottesini (13:52) -- Sonata in B flat major, op. 40, 2 for double bass and cello / Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (6:47) -- Concerto in B minor for double-bass and orchestra (15:11) ; Melodie in E minor for double-bass and orchestra (7:44) / Giovanni Bottesini -- Introduzione e variazioni sulla preghiera Dal tuo stellato soglio dal Moise di Rossini / Niccolo Paganini (9:35).
I. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Passione amorose; arranged
II. Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de, 1689-1755. Sonates suivies d’un nombre de pièces, op. 40. No. 2; arranged
III. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Concertos, double bass, orchestra, no. 2, B minor
IV. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Romanza patética; arranged
V. Paganini, Nicolò, 1782-1840. Sonata a preghiera; arranged