Il Carnevale Di Venezia - Puccini, Bottesini, Massenet
Michael Rieber & Gotz Schumacher
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Michael Rieber & Gotz Schumacher
Description
Unlike the protagonist in Patrick Süskind's celebrated play 'The Double Bass', nobody can accuse Michael Rieber, principal double bass with the NDR Symphony Orchestra, of having a fraught relationship with his instrument. This recording, made with his musical partner Götz Schumacher on piano, is testimony to his tremendous musical enthusiasm and sensitivity.
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. 2/1 for piano, Chopin's Prélude Op. 28/4, Song without Words Op. 109 by Felix Mendelssohn, and two original miniatures, Chanson Triste Op. 2 and Valse Miniature Op.1/2, 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.
Tracklisting
Fabergé-Quintet & Ulrike Payer
Philipp Schupelius; Marie Sophie Hauzel
Michael Rieber; Norbert Goerlich
Dagmar Lubking
Andre Schoch; Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
NDR Choir, Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, Philipp Ahmann
NDR Choir & Philipp Ahmann
Dorothea Schupelius; Jelizaveta Vasiljeva
Torleif Thedeen (cello) & Marianna Shirinyan (piano)
Oslo Kammerkor, Hakon Daniel Nystedt
Berit Norbakken (soprano) & Solmund Nystabakk (lutes)
Magnus Boye Hansen (violin), Mathias Halvorsen (piano)
Anna Gourari, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Markus Poschner
Gavin Bryars
Vladimir Delman; Milan RAI Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Schippers; Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Rai; New York Philharmonic Orchestra; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra