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Bottesini is remembered mainly as a double-bass virtuoso and as a conductor, but he was also a composer of some success; apart from several works for the double-bass h also wrote seven operas. The best known, Ero e Leandro, was premiered at the Turin Regio in 1879 to great success. The score, stylistically comparable to the late Verdi, certainly reveals unusual attention to orchestration and uses a richly chromatic language, not without influences of the Wagnerian style that was then catching on in Italy too.
Bottesini is remembered mainly as a double-bass virtuoso and as a conductor, but he was also a composer of some success; apart from several works for the double-bass h also wrote seven operas. The best known, Ero e Leandro, was premiered at the Turin Regio in 1879 to great success. The score, stylistically comparable to the late Verdi, certainly reveals unusual attention to orchestration and uses a richly chromatic language, not without influences of the Wagnerian style that was then catching on in Italy too. Read less
Works on This Recording
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Ero e Leandro by Giovanni Bottesini
Performer:
Roberto Scandiuzzi (Bass),
Veronique Mercier (Soprano),
Gianluca Pasolini (Tenor)
Conductor:
Aldo Salvagno
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Monteverdi Choir,
Piemonte Philharmonic Orchestra
Date of Recording: 10/2009
Venue: Teatro San Domenico, Crema, Italy
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