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Bottesini: Ero & Leandro / Mercier, Pasolini, Scandiuzzi, Ariofarne, Salvagno

Bottesini / Savagno / Mercier / Pasolini
Release Date: 03/27/2012 
Label:  Dynamic   Catalog #: 670  
Composer:  Giovanni Bottesini
Performer:  Roberto Scandiuzzi,  Veronique Mercier,  Gianluca Pasolini
Conductor:  Aldo Salvagno
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Monteverdi Choir,  Piemonte Philharmonic Orchestra
Number of Discs: 2 
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Notes and Editorial Reviews

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

1. 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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