Bottesini - String Quintets
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0645
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 7th January 2022
Contents
Works
Gran Quintetto in C minor, op.99String Quintet no.2 in E minor
String Quintet no.3 in A major
Artists
Leon Bosch (double bass)I Musicanti
Works
Gran Quintetto in C minor, op.99String Quintet no.2 in E minor
String Quintet no.3 in A major
Artists
Leon Bosch (double bass)I Musicanti
About
A passionate, articulate champion for the double bass, Bottesini brought the instrument out of the orchestra and into the spotlight. His own prowess on the double bass and his music for it has seen him described as “the Paganini of the double bass”.
Making its first appearance on disc, the C minor Second String Quintet adopts the string quartet-with-second cello scoring employed by Schubert and Boccherini to create a work of rhythmic vitality, colour and contrasting moods.
Also receiving its premiere recording, the intricately designed Third String Quintet, in A major, employs the two-viola instrumentation preferred by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven and is, as Toby Deller observes in his booklet notes, “the more lyrically Romantic work of the three on this recording, with four sharply characterised movements”.
Scored for string quartet and double bass, Bottesini’s Naples-composed First String Quintet, dedicated to Mercadante and familiarly known as the Gran Quintetto in C minor, completes the programme. It seamlessly marries a venerable and inherited Italian instrumental tradition with the bel canto poetry of Italian romantic opera.
Making their debuts on SOMM are double bassist Leon Bosch – of whom The Strad has said, he “demonstrates a natural affinity” with Bottesini; “his performances combine sonorous, lyrical, exquisitely nuanced playing with a remarkable command of the instrument’s bravura potential” – and the “flexible line-up of super-talented hand-picked performers” (Planet Hugill) he founded in 2013, I Musicanti.
Leon Bosch celebrates his 60th birthday with I Musicanti at London’s Wigmore Hall on 7 December 2021, including music by Bottesini, the 200th anniversary of whose birth falls the same month.
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