Il Carnevale di Venezia: Music for Double Bass
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Label: Es-Dur
Cat No: ES2063
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 27th January 2017
Contents
Works
NormaFantasia on Bellini's 'La Sonnambula'
Introduction and Variations on 'Carnival in Venice'
Variations on Paisiello's aria 'Nel cor piu non mi sento'
Preludes (24), op.28
Valse miniature, op.1 no.2
Thais: Meditation (trans. for double bass)
Songs without Words (Lieder ohne Worte): Book 2, op.30
Maravilla
Artists
Michael Rieber (double bass)Gotz Schumacher (piano)
Works
NormaFantasia on Bellini's 'La Sonnambula'
Introduction and Variations on 'Carnival in Venice'
Variations on Paisiello's aria 'Nel cor piu non mi sento'
Preludes (24), op.28
Valse miniature, op.1 no.2
Thais: Meditation (trans. for double bass)
Songs without Words (Lieder ohne Worte): Book 2, op.30
Maravilla
Artists
Michael Rieber (double bass)Gotz Schumacher (piano)
About
At the heart of this very personal selection of works are arrangements from Italian operatic arias such as ‘E lucevan le stele’ from Puccini’s Tosca and ‘Casta Diva’ from Bellini’s tragedy Norma. The disc also includes four bravura pieces by the opera composer and double bass virtuoso Giovanni Bottesini, among them the title track ‘Il Carnevale di Venezia’.
The operatic theme is complemented by arrangements of the Scriabin Étude op.2 no.1 for piano, Chopin’s Prélude op.28 no.4, the Song without Words op.30 no.3 by Felix Mendelssohn, and two original miniatures, Chanson Triste op.2 and Valse Miniature op.1 no.2, by Serge Koussevitzky.
Of Rieber’s playing, conductor Zubin Mehta enthuses: “I am impressed by this wonderful sound. Michael Rieber’s command of his instrument is astounding, and we feel as though we are listening to a well-trained baritone.” The bassist has worked for the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian State Opera in addition to his current roles with the NDR Symphony Orchestra and as a professor at the University of Music in Hamburg.
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