Michael Rieber & Götz Schumacher - Il Carnevale di Venezia - (Original Works and Transcriptions for Double Bass and Piano) (CD)

Release Date: 11/06/15

Nobody can accuse Michael Rieber, 1st solo contrabassist of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, of having a fraught relationship with his instrument. This CD is testimony to his tremendous musical enthusiasm. Together with the pianist Götz Schumacher, Rieber performs arrangements of operatic arias, four bravuras by contrabass virtuoso Giovanni Bottesini, and music by Mendelssohn and Koussevitzky.