Album description
1 audio disc : digital, stereo. ; 12 cm.Koch Schwann/Musica Mundi: CD 311 042 H1.
Originally for 2 double basses and orchestra (1st work), for 2 double basses (2nd-3rd work).
First movement is the Andante from the Rossini fantasia (2nd work).
Title on container spine: Kontrabasskonzerte.
Wolfgang Güttler (1st-4th works), Klaus Stoll (2nd work), double basses ; Ernö Sebestyen, violin (1st work), viola (3rd work) ; Martin Ostertag, cello (4th work) ; Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin ; Matthias Bamert, conductor (1st-2nd, 4th works).
Recorded in Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, November 13-15, 1985.
Performed on double basses by Carlo Giuseppe Testore and Giovanni Baptista Grancino.
Previously released on analog disc as: Schwann Musica Mundi: VMS 1642, 1986.
Released also on compact disc: Schwann Musica Mundi: CD 11642, p1987.
Program notes in German, with English and French translation ([5] pages), inserted.
Contents: Grand duo concertant A major (15:25) -- Grande concerto in quattro tempi [i.e. Fantasia dalle canzonette di Rossini. Andante and Passione amorose] / Bearb. Gerhard Roither (13:53) -- Gran duetto Nr. 2 (17:51) -- Duo concertant / Bearb. Wolfgang Gottschalk (12:56).
I. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Gran duo concertante; arranged
II. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Passione amorose; arranged
III. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Grande duetto, no. 2; arranged
IV. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Duo concertant sur les thèmes des Puritains
Reviews
- 1. Fanfare: 3-4, 1988, p. 86-87 (CD).
- 2. American Record Guide 5-6, 1988, p. 19.
- 3. International Society of Bassists, v. 14 #1 (Fall 1987), p. 52. New releases - no review.