Album description
1 audio disc : digital ; 12 cm.Naxos: 8.557042.
Songs sung in French and Italian.
Joel Quarrington, double bass ; with, Harold Hall Robinson, double bass (1st work); Andrew Burashko, piano (2nd-8th works) ; James Campbell, clarinet (4th work) ; Monica Whicher, soprano (6th-7th works).
Recorded at Grace Church-on-the-Hill, Toronto, Febraury 16, 2004 (1st work), at Glenn Gould Studio, CBC, Toronto, July 3, 2006 (6th-7th works) and at the Performing Arts Centre, The Country Day School, King City, Ont., July 27-29, 2005 (2nd-5th, 8th works).
Program notes by Jeffrey Stokes and texts in French and Italian with English translations (6 pages), inserted.
Contents: Gran duetto no. 3 (11:58) -- Concerto no. 2 (14:22) -- Adagio melancolico [sic] ed appassionato (6:35) -- Duetto for clarinet and double bass (9:43) -- Fantasia on Bellini’s Beatrice di Tenda (11:00) -- Une bouche aimée (5:14) -- Tutto che il mondo serra (4:47) -- Meditazione : Aria di Bach (5:13).
I. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Grande duetto, no. 3
II. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Concertos, double bass, orchestra, no. 2, B minor; arranged
III. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Adagio melanconico ed appassionato
IV. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Gran duo
V. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Concerto nell'opera Beatrice di Tenda
VI. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Bouche aimée
VII. Bottesini, Giovanni, 1821-1889. Tutto il mondo serra
VIII. Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Suites, orchestra, BWV 1068, D major. Air; arranged
Performers
1. | Burashko, Andrew |
2. | Campbell, James, 1949- |
3. | Quarrington, Joel, 1955- |
4. | Robinson, Harold, 1952- |
5. | Whicher, Monica, 1963- |