Giovanni Bottesini - Gran Duetto No 2 (2 contrabajos)

Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889) - Gran Duetto No 2 para dos contrabajos en do menor
Contrabajistas: Ovidiu Badila y Woflgang Güttler
Grabación: 2000

[@contrebasseclassique]

I. Allegro agitato (0:07) II. Andante (10:22) III. Rondo - Allegretto (15:22)

[@amekitty8913]

Is the bass using an extension or is it 5 string bass?

[@contrebasseclassique]

Probably not. The music is written as it sounds, not one octave higher as usual

[@amekitty8913]

@@contrebasseclassique Oh okay, It thought maybe it was lower because the notes written are way lower. thanks for clearing that up

[@nuage9538]

@@amekitty8913 It is indeed written as it sounds, so an octave lower than usual doublebass scores. Solo and chamber music at that time was even played on 3 stringed basses, as they didn’t need the lowest notes !

[@BetaAxolotl]

The bass is using solo tuning with 4 strings and no extension. The bass clef is not transposed and you are to play it as the written octave. This was very common in bass solos in the romantic era