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Bassic Instincts - Popular Works for Low Strings

11/30/1994, 22 Tracks, 58:37

Featuring

  • Sinfonia Lahti Cello and Bass Ensemble
  • Modest Mussorgsky
  • Robert Schumann
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Gabriel Fauré
  • Claude Debussy
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Vittorio Monti

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Interpretation

This album features popular works arranged for a cello and bass ensemble, specifically six cellos and four double basses.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Ilkka Pälli, the arranger for this album, has been the solo cellist of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra since 1986 and has actively participated in chamber music.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

The Sinfonia Lahti Cello & Bass Ensemble gave the first performance of Ilkka Pälli's arrangement of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in spring 2002.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The 'Promenade' theme in Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition depicts the composer walking through an art gallery, with its tempo marking translating to 'Fast enough, in the Russian manner; not sprightly, but slightly sustained'.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition was inspired by a memorial exhibition of works by his friend, artist and architect Viktor Hartmann, who died suddenly at age 39.

Source: Booklet

Interpretation

The arranger, Ilkka Pälli, transposed some movements of Pictures at an Exhibition an octave down and used various harmonics and sul ponticello effects to emphasize descant nuances.

Source: Booklet

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