Rick Stotijn – Giovanni Bottesini: Capriccio di Bravura (2012)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 56:26 minutes | PDF Booklet | 3,06 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | PDF Booklet | 1,34 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | PDF Booklet | 1,17 GB
DSD Recording | Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Channel Classics # CCS SA 32612
It’s difficult to imagine that a musical instrument as heavy and unwieldy as a double bass could sound so light and malleable as it does in this wonderful recording by double bassist Rick Stotijn. Of course it doesn’t hurt that the music performed is by the double bass composer extraordinaire Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889). What Paganini did for the violin, or what Rossini did for Italian opera, Bottesini did for the humble double bass. A master double bassist himself, most of his compositional output was devoted to this instrument. His music is very much in the style of a Rossini opera, with a flowing cantabile style in which the instrument plays the lead role of tenor as in an opera.
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Rick Stotijn – Back to StockHome (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:51 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
For the past ten years Rick Stotijn has been making Stockholm his second home, finding musical inspiration as well as new friends there. The present disc is a reflection of this, with existing and new repertoire involving the double bass by composers who have all at some point lived and worked in the city. The oldest work, as well as the best known, is the Concerto for Double Bass by Eduard Tubin, composed in 1948. Stotijn performs it here with the support of his own orchestra, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under James Gaffigan.
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Camerata RCO, Rick Stotijn – Vivaldi & Bottesini: Doppio espressivo (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:11 minutes | 990 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
The concerto, with its soloist thrilling and moving an audience with the support of an orchestra, has been one of the most popular musical forms for over 300 years. Now imagine a concerto for two instruments: twice the virtuosity and twice the expression!
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