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Review title: Is just a matter of tunning?
Product review: I think that double bass technique is much more wide than a change of tunning, specially if you think that (for example)the 90% of the Elegie in D is played in ONLY ONE string. I think that other technical matters(Bow driving, fingering, vibrato)and musical matters(knowledge of Bottesini's language in relation to the instrument's possibilities) allow performers to make the audience forget about the instrument and enyoy this pure, simple and passioned music. This was what Bottesini did in his time; he could SING whith his instrument. Bottesini's playing was very close to "Belle Canto Italiano", he was a lover of the opera (his mother was a soprano and he was a close friend of Giusseppe Verdi). In my opinion Rinat Ibragimov is who is closest to this human, warm, passioned voice. I think that we must listen to all versions of Bottesini's works and discuse about these matters. Thanks.
