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
Emanuel Blumin-Sint
Philipp Schupelius; Marie Sophie Hauzel
Michael Buchanan, Kasia Wieczorek, Eroica Berlin, Jakob Lehmann
Fabergé-Quintet & Ulrike Payer
Michael Rieber; Norbert Goerlich
Dagmar Lubking
Andre Schoch; Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
NDR Choir, Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, Philipp Ahmann
Karolos
Daniel Di Prinzio, Ihor Kordiuk
Nora von Marschall
Isabel Schicketanz
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Lea Suter