Album description
1 audio disc : digital ; 12 cm.Gramola : 98935.
Ödön Rácz, double bass ; János Balázs, piano ; with the Philharmonics (7th work).
Recorded in the main studio of Hungaroton, Budapest, July 4-6, 2012 (1st-6th works) and at Grosser Sendesaal ORF Radiokulturhaus, Vienna, October 21-24 (7th work).
Performed on a double bass made by Michael Ignatius Stadlmann, Vienna, 1781.
Program notes in German and English (14 pages), inserted.
Contents: Fantasia on Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor / Giovanni Bottesini -- Valse triste in C minor / Ferenc Vecsey -- Sonata enigmatica : for double bass solo, op. 81 / Gottfried von Einem -- Bass trip : for double bass solo / Pēteris Vasks -- Fantasia on Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda / Giovanni Bottesini -- Introduction and Variations on Dal tuo stellato soglio from Rossini's Mose in Egitto / Niccolò Paganini -- Flight of the bumblebee / Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow.
I. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Fantasia sulla Lucia di Lammermoor di G. Donizetti
II. Vecsey, Franz von, 1893-1935. Valse triste
III. Einem, Gottfried von, 1918-1996. Sonata enigmatica
IV. Vasks, Pēteris, 1946-. Bass trip
V. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Concerto nell’opera Beatrice di Tenda
VI. Paganini, Nicolò, 1782-1840. Sonata a preghiera; arranged
VII. Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908. Skazka o t͡sare Saltane. Nu, teper’, moĭ shmel’; arranged
Performers
| 1. | Balázs, János, 1988- |
| 2. | Philharmonics (Musical group) |
| 3. | Rácz, Ödön, 1981- |