Bottesini: Fantasias, etc / Thomas Martin, Anthony Halstead, et al

Bottesini: Fantasias, etc, / Thomas Martin, Anthony, Halstead

Label: Naxos (USA)
Catalog No: NXS 8570400
Format: CD
Release Date: 2009-02-24
Number of Discs: 1
Running time: 1 hr. 9 min.
UPC Code: 747313040070

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Notes & Reviews:

Giovanni Bottesini, an accomplished and respected conductor, also enjoyed a globe-trotting career as "the Paganini of the double bass". For this recording manuscript sources have been used for his 'Fantasia' on Bellini's 'La sonnambula', Variations on 'Nel cor piu non mi sento' from Paisiello's 'La molinara', arrangements of famous works such as Chopin's 'Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 25 No. 7', the 'Air' from Bach's third Orchestral Suite and other pieces.



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Boomy bass, Wobbly singer, Tinkly Piano
The balance is all wrong on this CD. The double bass is boomy and overspotlit, 'larger than life'. The singer is too wobbly and the words are smudged. The piano lacks bass and sounds like a tinkly upright in the room next door. This quite attractive music needs a better recording than this one. 3 stars for the music, 2 for the performance.
Submitted on 03/11/09 by William Rawlinson 
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Works Details

>Bottesini, Giovanni : Fantasia "La Sonnambula"
  • Performers: Thomas Martin (Double Bass); Anthony Halstead (Piano)
  • Notes: Studio 2, CTS Studios, Wembley, London, UK (03/26/1997-08/29/1997)
  • Running Time: 9 min. 29 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic

>Bottesini, Giovanni : Melodia in E (Romanza patetica)
  • Performers: Anthony Halstead (Piano); Thomas Martin (Double Bass)
  • Notes: Studio 2, CTS Studios, Wembley, London, UK (03/26/1997-08/29/1997)
  • Running Time: 6 min. 53 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic

>Bottesini, Giovanni : Capriccio à la Chopin (Allegro capriccioso in F sharp minor)
  • Performers: Anthony Halstead (Piano); Thomas Martin (Double Bass)
  • Notes: Studio 2, CTS Studios, Wembley, London, UK (03/26/1997-08/29/1997)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 23 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic

>Bottesini, Giovanni : Melodia (Giovinetto innamorato)
  • Performers: Anthony Halstead (Piano); Jacquelyn Fugelle (Soprano); Thomas Martin (Double Bass)
  • Notes: Studio 2, CTS Studios, Wembley, London, UK (03/26/1997-08/29/1997)
  • Running Time: 4 min. 54 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic

>Bottesini, Giovanni : Tutto che il mondo serra (transcription of Chopin's Etude no 19 in C sharp minor, Op. 25, no 7)
  • Performers: Anthony Halstead (Piano); Jacquelyn Fugelle (Soprano); Thomas Martin (Double Bass)
  • Notes: Studio 2, CTS Studios, Wembley, London, UK (03/26/1997-08/29/1997)
  • Running Time: 4 min. 56 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic

>Bottesini, Giovanni : Introduzione e Gavotta
  • Performers: Anthony Halstead (Piano); Thomas Martin (Double Bass)
  • Notes: Studio 2, CTS Studios, Wembley, London, UK (03/26/1997-08/29/1997)
  • Running Time: 4 min. 48 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic

>Bottesini, Giovanni : Meditazione (Aria di Bach) (arrangement of Bach's Suite no 3 in D major, BWV 1068, 2. Air, "Air on :: Air on the G string), for double bass & piano
  • Performers: Thomas Martin (Double Bass); Anthony Halstead (Piano)
  • Notes: Studio 2, CTS Studios, Wembley, London, UK (03/26/1997-08/29/1997)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 25 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic

>Bottesini, Giovanni : Variations on Nel cor più non mi sento (Arietta from G. Paisello's La Molinara)
  • Performers: Thomas Martin (Double Bass); Anthony Halstead (Piano)
  • Notes: Studio 2, CTS Studios, Wembley, London, UK (03/26/1997-08/29/1997)
  • Running Time: 6 min. 4 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic

>Bottesini, Giovanni : Ci divide l'ocean
  • Performers: Thomas Martin (Double Bass); Jacquelyn Fugelle (Soprano); Anthony Halstead (Piano)
  • Notes: Studio 2, CTS Studios, Wembley, London, UK (03/26/1997-08/29/1997)
  • Running Time: 4 min. 3 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic

>Bottesini, Giovanni : Romanza
  • Performers: Thomas Martin (Double Bass); Jacquelyn Fugelle (Soprano); Anthony Halstead (Piano)
  • Notes: Studio 2, CTS Studios, Wembley, London, UK (03/26/1997-08/29/1997)
  • Running Time: 2 min. 54 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic

>Bottesini, Giovanni : Variations on a Scottish Air Auld Robin Gray :: Auld Robin Gray, for double bass & piano
  • Performers: Thomas Martin (Double Bass); Anthony Halstead (Piano)
  • Notes: Studio 2, CTS Studios, Wembley, London, UK (03/26/1997-08/29/1997)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 42 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic

>Bottesini, Giovanni : L'alba sul Bosforo Overture
  • Performers: Anthony Halstead (Piano); Thomas Martin (Double Bass)
  • Notes: Studio 2, CTS Studios, Wembley, London, UK (03/26/1997-08/29/1997)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Written: circa 1870

>Bottesini, Giovanni : Introduction et Variations sur le Carnaval de Venise
  • Performers: Thomas Martin (Double Bass); Anthony Halstead (Piano)
  • Notes: Studio 2, CTS Studios, Wembley, London, UK (03/26/1997-08/29/1997)
  • Running Time: 10 min. 47 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic