Album description
1 audio disc : digital ; 12 cm.MSR Classics: MS1221.
Robert Oppelt, double bass ; with: Nicolette Driehuys Oppelt, flute ; Elisabeth Adkins, Paula Akbar, violins ; Ruth Wicker Schaaf, viola, James Lee, David Hardy, cellos ; Richard Barber, Jeffrey Weisner, Ali Yazdanfar, double basses ; Dotian Levalier, harp.
Recorded at Saint Luke Catholic Church, McLean, Virginia., October 11-12, 1999 (5th work), May 22, 2006 (3rd, 6th works), June 30, 2006 (1st-2nd works), and August 24, 2006 (4th work).
Performed on his orchestra double bass made in Italy in the 18th century.
Program notes (11 pages), inserted.
Contents: Duetto for cello and double bass / Gioacchino Rossini (12:27) -- Pas de deux : for flute and double bass / Robert Oppelt (3:48) -- Danses sacrèe et profane / Claude Debussy (10:34) -- Six waltzes for double bass / Domenico Dragonetti (12:44) -- Quartet for double basses / Gunther Schuller (15:18) -- Serenade for double bass, harp, and string quartet / Charlie Barnett (14:49).
I. Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868. Duets, cello, double bass, D major
II. Oppelt, Robert J., 1961-. Pas de deux
III. Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Danse sacrée et danse profane; arranged
IV. Dragonetti, Domenico, 1763-1846. Waltzes, double bass. No. 1-6
V. Schuller, Gunther, 1925-2015. Quartets, double basses (4)
VI. Barnett, Charlie, 1951-. Serenade, double bass, string orchestra; arranged