Rossini: Sonate a quattro & Bottesini: Gran Duo Concertante

Release Date: 30th Sep 2016
Catalogue No: ELQ4825103
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

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Rossini: Sonata a quattro No. 1 in G major

Work length13:14

Salvatore Accardo (violin), Sylvie Gazeau (violin), Alain Meunier (cello), Franco Petracchi (double bass)
Recorded: 1978-10
Recording Venue: --, --

1. Moderato

Track length5:46

2. Andantino

Track length4:50

3. Allegro

Track length2:38

Rossini: Sonata a quattro No. 2 in A Major

Work length13:19

Salvatore Accardo (violin), Sylvie Gazeau (violin), Alain Meunier (cello), Franco Petracchi (double bass)
Recorded: 1978-10

1. Allegro

Track length7:16

2. Andantino

Track length3:43

3. Allegro

Track length2:20

Rossini: Sonata a quattro No. 3 in C major

Work length12:09

Salvatore Accardo (violin), Sylvie Gazeau (violin), Alain Meunier (cello), Franco Petracchi (double bass)
Recorded: 1978-10
Recording Venue: --, --

1. Allegro

Track length4:11

2. Andante

Track length4:59

3. Moderato

Track length2:59

Rossini: Sonata a quattro No. 4 in B flat major

Work length15:14

Salvatore Accardo (violin), Sylvie Gazeau (violin), Alain Meunier (cello), Franco Petracchi (double bass)
Recorded: 1978-10
Recording Venue: --, --

1. Allegro vivace

Track length7:19

2. Andantino

Track length5:03

3. Allegretto

Track length2:52

Rossini: Sonata a quattro No. 5 in E flat

Work length14:45

Salvatore Accardo (violin), Sylvie Gazeau (violin), Alain Meunier (cello), Franco Petracchi (double bass)
Recorded: 1978-10

1. Allegro vivace

Track length7:22

2. Andantino

Track length3:56

3. Allegretto

Track length3:27

Rossini: Sonata a quattro No. 6 in D

Work length15:59

Salvatore Accardo (violin), Sylvie Gazeau (violin), Alain Meunier (cello), Franco Petracchi (double bass)
Recorded: 1978-10

1. Allegro spiritoso

Track length7:28

2. Andante assai

Track length2:59

3. Tempesta (Allegro)

Track length5:32

Rossini: Duet for Cello and Double-Bass in D

Work length16:46

Alain Meunier (cello), Franco Petracchi (double bass)
Recorded: 1978-10

1. Allegro

Track length8:47

2. Andante molto

Track length4:01

3. Allegro

Track length3:58

Rossini: Un mot à Paganini for Double-Bass and Piano - Arr. for violin & piano

Work length8:55

Salvatore Accardo (violin), Bruno Canino (piano)
Recorded: 1978-10

Rossini: Une Larme pour Basse

Work length2:42

Franco Petracchi (double bass), Bruno Canino (piano)
Recorded: 1978-10

Bottesini: Grand Duo Concertant for Violin, Double bass and Strings

Work length18:54

Luciano Vicari (violin), Lucio Buccarella (double bass)
I Musici
Recorded: 1971-09
Recording Venue: Unknown, La Tour de Peilz

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In the summer of 1804 while on a summer holiday in the village of Conventello near Ravenna, Rossini, then aged twelve, composed his six Sonate a quattro for two violins, cello and double-bass. Many years later, the composer wrote on the front of the manuscript: ‘First violin, second violin, violoncello and contrabass parts for six horrendous sonatas composed by me at the country house (near Ravenna) of my friend and patron, Agostinio Triossi, at the most youthful age, having not even had a lesson in thorough-bass. They were all composed and copied in three days and performed in a doggish way by Triossi, contrabass; Morini (his cousin), first violin; the latter’s brother, violoncello; and the second violin by myself, who was, to tell the truth, the least doggish.’

Known also in orchestrated versions as the ‘String Sonatas’, they are rarer in these original versions. Together with musicians with whom he has worked closely – [names] – Salvatore Accardo recorded these in 1978 in Switzerland. They were issued the following year and, according to Tully Potter, who writes the notes for this release, ‘have acquired mythical status and are unlikely to be surpassed: the original two-LP set has been changing hands for three-figure sums but this is the first complete international CD reissue on Decca’. Three smaller Rossini works complete the disc which is then filled out by the more extensive Gran Duo Concertante for violin, double-bass and strings by Dragonetti’s successor as king of the double bassists, Giovanni Bottesini.

Although noted for his fearless and thrilling performances of music by Paganini for Deutsche Grammophon, Salvatore Accardo, who celebrates his 75th birthday in October 2016, also recorded extensively for Philips in the 1970s and 80s. His repertoire ranged from Baroque music through to 19th and 20th concertos, including the complete music for violin and orchestra by Bruch, and concertos by Mendelssohn and Sibelius.

Rossini: Sonate a quattro & Bottesini: Gran Duo Concertante

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