Ovidiu Badila - The Memorial Recordings

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Domenico Dragonetti c. 1793.
Domenico Dragonetti c. 1793. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Playlist:
Henry ECCLES: Sonata in A minor (ca. 1732)
0:10 / I. Prélude (Largo)
2:52 / II. Courante (Allegro)
4:30 / III. Sarabande (Adagio)
5:49 / IV. Gigue (Vivace)
(7:05 applause; 7:28 Ovidiu Badila speaks about Eccles and Dragonetti)
Ovidiu BADILA, doublebass - unknown, piano
(Live, 26 Nov.2000 - Brechemin Auditorium, UW School of Music, Seattle)

Domenico DRAGONETTI: Pezzo di Concerto (piano arr. Simon Sechter)
0:10 / I. Aria
4:54 / II. Minuetto con variazioni
(13:15 applause; 13:43 Ovidiu Badila speaks about Dragonetti and Bottesini)
Ovidiu BADILA, doublebass - unknown, piano
(Live, 26 Nov.2000 - Brechemin Auditorium, UW School of Music, Seattle)

Giovanni BOTTESINI: Grand Fantasy on Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor"
(9:51 appaluse; 10:30 Ovidiu Badila speaks about Bottesini and Rossini)
Ovidiu BADILA, doublebass - unknown, piano
(Live, 26 Nov.2000 - Brechemin Auditorium, UW School of Music, Seattle)

Gioacchino ROSSINI: "Une larme", Romance for 
doublebass and piano
(2:08 applause; 2:25 Ovidiu Badila speaks about Rossini and Bottesini)
Ovidiu BADILA, doublebass - unknown, piano
(Live, 26 Nov.2000 - Brechemin Auditorium, UW School of Music, Seattle)

Giovanni BOTTESINI: Variations "Nel cor più non mi sento" Op.23, on Paisiello's 'La Molinara' [6'05''] (6:15 applause)
Ovidiu BADILA, doublebass - unknown, piano
(Live, 26 Nov.2000 - Brechemin Auditorium, UW School of Music, Seattle)

JS BACH: Suite No.2 in D minor, BWV 1008 (arr. Badila) [19'06'']
(0:00 / Ovidiu Badila speaks about different doublebasses)
1:20 / I. Prélude
5:07 / II. Allemande
8:27 / III. Courante
10:19 / IV. Sarabande
15:09 / V. Menuett I° & II°
18:00 / VI. Gigue
(20:26 applause; 21:20 Ovidiu Badila speaks about Bottesini)
Ovidiu BADILA, doublebass (Paolo Maggini c.a.1597)
(Live, 26 Nov.2000 - Brechemin Auditorium, UW School of Music, Seattle)

Giovanni BOTTESINI: Fantasy on Bellini's "I Puritani" (1st version) [9'18'']
(9:28 applause; 9:50 Ovidiu Badila speaks about Paganini)
Ovidiu BADILA, doublebass - unknown, piano
(Live, 26 Nov.2000 - Brechemin Auditorium, UW School of Music, Seattle)

Niccolò PAGANINI: Variations on G string, "Moses Fantasy", from Rossini's 'Mosé in Egitto' (arr. Badila) [6'47'']
(6:57 applause; Ovidiu Badila jokes and speaks about his Rossini paraphrase)
Ovidiu BADILA, doublebass - unknown, piano
(Live, 26 Nov.2000 - Brechemin Auditorium, UW School of Music, Seattle)
English: Gioacchino Rossini, 1865 Русский: Ком...
English: Gioacchino Rossini, 1865 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Ovidiu BADILA: Paraphrase on Rossini's "Aria di Don Basilio" (The Barber of Seville
) for doublebass, piano -and singing bassist- [4'04'']
(4:14 applause; 5:09 Ovidiu Badila speaks about Bartòk)
Ovidiu BADILA, doublebass & voice - unknown, piano
(Live, 26 Nov.2000 - Brechemin Auditorium, UW School of Music, Seattle)

Béla BARTÓK: Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56, BB 68 (arr. Badila) [5'55'']
0:10 / No.1 Dance with the stick (Jocul cu bâtâ)
1:31 / No.2 Brâul
2:12 / No.3 The heavy dancer (Pe Loc)
3:20 / No.4 Dance of the Butshum people (Buciumeana)
4:53 / No.5 Romanian polka (Poarga Româneascã)
5:19 / No.6 Fast dance (Manuntelul)
(6:05 applause)

Ovidiu BADILA, doublebass - unknown, piano
(Live, 26 Nov.2000 - Brechemin Auditorium, UW School of Music, Seattle)