℗ 2022 SOMM Recordings
Released | January 7, 2022 |
Duration | 1h 17m 15s |
Record Label | SOMM Recordings |
Catalogue No. | SOMMCD0645 |
Genre | Classical (Chamber) |
Bottesini: String Quintets
I Musicanti
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
String Quintet No. 2 in E Minor
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1.1
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I. Moderato
Giovanni Bottesini; I Musicanti |
10:19 | |||
1.2
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II. Minuetto. Allegro moderato
Giovanni Bottesini; I Musicanti |
5:17 | |||
1.3
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III. Andante sostenuto
Giovanni Bottesini; I Musicanti |
5:22 | |||
1.4
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IV. Allegro vivo
Giovanni Bottesini; I Musicanti |
5:22 | |||
String Quintet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 99 "Gran quintetto"
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1.5
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I. Allegro moderato
Giovanni Bottesini; I Musicanti |
9:55 | |||
1.6
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II. Scherzo. Allegro ma non troppo
Giovanni Bottesini; I Musicanti |
5:05 | |||
1.7
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III. Adagio
Giovanni Bottesini; I Musicanti |
6:04 | |||
1.8
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IV. Finale. Allegro con brio
Giovanni Bottesini; I Musicanti |
4:28 | |||
String Quintet No. 3 in A Major
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1.9
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I. Allegro moderato
Giovanni Bottesini; I Musicanti |
9:57 | |||
1.10
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II. Scherzo. Allegro moderato
Giovanni Bottesini; I Musicanti |
4:14 | |||
1.11
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III. Andante
Giovanni Bottesini; I Musicanti |
4:43 | |||
1.12
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IV. Finale. Allegro vivace
Giovanni Bottesini; I Musicanti |
6:29 | |||
Digital Booklet
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SOMM Recordings celebrates the bi-centenary of Giovanni Bottesini, a legendary double bass player and pioneering composer for the instrument, with First Recordings of his String Quintets Nos.2 (E minor) and No.3 (A major), performed by double bass virtuoso Leon Bosch and I Musicanti. A passionate, articulate champion for the double bass, Bottesini brought the instrument out of the orchestra and into the spotlight. His own prowess on the double bass and his music for it has seen him described as “the Paganini of the double bass”. Making its first appearance on album, the C minor Second String Quintet adopts the string quartet-with-second cello scoring employed by Schubert and Boccherini to create a work of rhythmic vitality, color and contrasting moods. Also receiving its premiere recording, the intricately designed Third String Quintet, in A major, employs the two-viola instrumentation preferred by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven and is, as Toby Deller observes in his booklet notes, “the more lyrically Romantic work of the three on this recording, with four sharply characterized movements”. Scored for string quartet and double bass, Bottesini’s Naples-composed First String Quintet, dedicated to Mercadante and familiarly known as the Gran Quintetto in C minor, completes the program. It seamlessly marries a venerable and inherited Italian instrumental tradition with the bel canto poetry of Italian romantic opera. Making their debuts on SOMM are double bassist Leon Bosch – of whom The Strad has said, he “demonstrates a natural affinity” with Bottesini; “his performances combine sonorous, lyrical, exquisitely nuanced playing with a remarkable command of the instrument’s bravura potential” – and the “flexible line-up of super-talented hand-picked performers” (Planet Hugill) he founded in 2013, I Musicanti.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – SOMM Recordings Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.76 -5.85 to -0.07 | -22.90 -26.63 to -20.13 | -20.03 -23.50 to -17.20 | 13 12 to 15 | |
1 | I. Moderato | -1.17 | -22.02 | -19.1 | 13 |
2 | II. Minuetto. Allegro moderato | -0.89 | -22.73 | -19.6 | 14 |
3 | III. Andante sostenuto | -1.33 | -22.45 | -19.2 | 12 |
4 | IV. Allegro vivo | -0.53 | -21.76 | -18.9 | 13 |
5 | I. Allegro moderato | -0.19 | -21.26 | -18.9 | 14 |
6 | II. Scherzo. Allegro ma non troppo | -0.23 | -20.18 | -17.9 | 13 |
7 | III. Adagio | -2.39 | -24.32 | -22.3 | 12 |
8 | IV. Finale. Allegro con brio | -0.07 | -20.13 | -17.2 | 13 |
9 | I. Allegro moderato | -2.86 | -24.38 | -21.3 | 14 |
10 | II. Scherzo. Allegro moderato | -2.89 | -25.71 | -22.4 | 15 |
11 | III. Andante | -5.85 | -26.63 | -23.5 | 13 |
12 | IV. Finale. Allegro vivace | -2.69 | -23.23 | -20.0 | 13 |