Domenico Dragonetti – 12 Waltzes (different soloists)

Domenico Dragonetti (1763-1846) – 12 Waltzes for solo Double Bass (date unknown) Recordings: Waltz 1 – Vivace:    • Dragonetti — Twelve Waltzes, No. 1, Vivace...   Double Bassist: Phoebe Russell Waltz 2 – Presto:    • Dragonetti — Twelve Waltzes, No. 2, Presto...   Double Bassist: Phoebe Russell Waltz 3 – Vivace:    • Dragonetti - Waltz No. 3 (Glöckler / Henle...   Double Bassist: Tobias Glöckler Waltz 4 – Allegro:    • Domenico Dragonetti: Waltz No. 4 (Allegro)...   Double Bassist: Jeremy McCoy Waltz 5 – Vivace:    • Domenico Dragonetti – Waltz No. 5   Double Bassist: Ödön Rácz Waltz 6 – Vivace:    • Domenico DRAGONETTI - Waltz No.6   Double Bassist: Dritan Gani Waltz 7 – Vivace:    • Domenico Dragonetti : Waltz No.7 Vivace　ドメ...   Double Bassist: Kazuki Shinozaki Waltz 8 – Vivace:    • Domenico DRAGONETTİ - Waltz No.8   Double Bassist: Dritan Gani Waltz 9 – Vivace:    • Waltz No. 9 in F Major (Vivace)   Double Bassist: Robert Oppelt Waltz 10 – Allegretto:    • Waltz No. 10 in B-Flat Major (Allegretto)   Double Bassist: Robert Oppelt Waltz 11 – Vivace:    • Domenico Dragonetti – Waltz No. 11   Double Bassist: Ödön Rácz Waltz 12 – Presto:    • 3 Waltzes, D. 370: Waltz No. 12: Presto   Double Bassist: Ubaldo Fioravanti Score: https://www.henle.de/en/HN-847 Looking for new chamber music repertoire? Go take a look at the ContrebasseClassique website: https://www.contrebasseclassique.com/ Details by G. Henle Verlag: https://www.henle.de/en/HN-847 We have uncovered a true delight for double bass players: a collection of twelve stylized waltzes by Beethoven’s contemporary Domenico Dragonetti. The “Paganini of the double bass” grew up in Venice, but moved to London as an adult. It is there that he probably wrote the twelve waltzes. They are quite likely the earliest surviving works for double bass solo. These charming pieces have until now not been published in their entirety. Despite their virtuosic impression, the technical hurdles can be comfortably mastered; the pieces are therefore not only suited for the concert hall but are also perfect encores. Our quality Urtext edition, is thus able to fill a true gap in the repertoire. More details by Vincent Novello: https://ijm.education/strings/double-... These extraordinary specimens of “the Waltz style” as applied to the capabilities of such an instrument as the Double Bass were some of the last “playful Exercises” which Dragonetti wrote to evince his wonderful command over that Gigantic instrument. He was fond of playing them to me in his own room (although no terms ever induced him to perform them in public), as he knew that I was acquainted with the complete and usual limits of the contrabasso in the hands of other performers, and that I therefore was perfectly aware of what was going forward when he was applying his own system of bowing, peculiarity of expression, striking character et cetera, to them; and certainly the mode in which he performed these admirable and masterly compositions of their class, was such as I never expect to hear again accomplished, as long as I may live; and which will probably never again be heard by anyone, on the Double Bass, as long as the world lasts. #dragonetti #domenicodragonetti #doublebasssolo