Music for Double Bass and Piano Vol.2: Quarrington(cb)Burashko(p)

GIOVANNI BOTTESINI [1821-1889]
Music for Double Bass and Piano Vol. 2

Giovanni Bottesini enjoyed a globe-trotting career as “the Paganini of the double bass”.
He was also a successful conductor and a composer, although only the music he wrote for his own instrument has outlived him. Many of the works on this recording emphasize the essential bel canto quality of Bottesini’s inspiration, most explicitly in the dazzling Bellini Fantasia, but also in the duets with clarinet and soprano which demand virtuosity of both feeling and technique.
The Concerto No. 2 is a fully mature work, from the somewhat laconic first movement, through the simply singing second, to the third, driven by a rhythmic figure typical of the polonaise and the Cuban bolero. ( NAXOS )

Gran Duetto No. 3
Concerto No. 2
Adagio melancolico ed appassionato
Duetto for Clarinet and Double Bass
Fantasia on Bellini’s Beatrice di Tenda
Une bouche aimee
Tutto che il mondo serra: Chopin Terzetto (tr. Chopin: Etude, Op. 25, No. 7)
Meditazione: Aria di Bach

Joel Quarrington, double bass
Andrew Burashko, piano
Harold Hall Robinson, double bass
James Campbell, clarinet
Monica Whicher, soprano

Digital Recording: 2004-2006