Bottesini: Passione Amorosa for violin, double bass & string orchestra (Solo Tuning)

About the Composition Bottesini composed a number of original works for two double basses, all thought to have been written during his studies at the Milan Conservatoire (1835-39) or in the years shortly afterwards. This was probably the only time that Bottesini performed with another bassist during his long and illustrious career and Giovanni Arpesani (1820-1855), a former student at the conservatoire, was his duo partner at the time [Also documented as Luigi Arpesani]. The duo performed together in 1844 at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice, according to the biographer Gaspare Nello Vetro, but there is no mention of a performance of the Passione Amorosa. Although still at the beginning of his career, Bottesini would have been steeped in the early 19th-century Italian opera of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti amongst others, and much of his music encapsulates the drama, passion and bravura of the opera house. In three lively and contrasting movements and lasting only around ten minutes,