CHOPIN-BOTTESINI:
a Romantic Conversation for Double Bass and Piano
- Bottesini: Fantasia su “Lucia di Lammermoor” di Donizetti
- Chopin: First Ballad in g minor, opus 23
- Bottesini: Romanza Drammatica
- Chopin: Polonaise Brillante, opus 1
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- Chopin: Nocturne in C# minor, opus posthume
- Bottesini: Allegretto Capriccio alla Chopin
- Chopin: Fantaisie in f minor, opus 49
- Bottesini: Grande Allegro di Concerto alla Mendelssohn
FRENCH PROGRAM
- Richard Dubugnon : Ekskize
- Giovanni Bottesini : Allegretto Cappriccio "alla Chopin"
- Serge Lance : Six Croquis
- Gabriel Fauré : Après un rêve
- Alfred Desenclos : Aria et Rondo
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- Camille Saint-Saëns : Danse Macabre
- Frank Proto : A Carmen Fantasy
IMMORTAL CLASSICS
- Giuseppe Verdi : Overture from "La Forza del Destino"
- Reinhold Glière : Prelude and Scherzo
- Franz Schubert : Sonata "Arpeggione"
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- Frederic Chopin : Ballade no 1, op 23
- Franck Proto : A Carmen Fantasy
SPICY ODYSSEY
Subtitled "A Poetic Adventure for Double Bass and Piano", the Spicy Odyssey is a work exploring a unique concept: to engage the audience in living a wordless musical story in which they will discover the double bass in an unexpected way and our duo's singular musical world. The spectator will be visited by a lot of emotions : wonder, amusement, surprise, reverie, anxiety, sadness, joy... We want him to take his seat unaware of what to expect, and then to be carried along by composer Jean-Marc Fouché's enticing narrative.
Lasting about 50 mn, the Spicy Odyssey consists of 7 chapters whose titles were chosen to ignite the listener's fantasy.