Elegia 1, 2 & 3 by Giovanni Bottesini demonstrate a composer at the very height of his powers. Each offers musical and technical challenges in equal measure, demonstrating the virtuosic and lyrical potential of the double bass throughout its solo register, and the beauty and quality, confirm why Bottesini’s music is still at the heart of the solo repertoire more than 130 years after his death.

Elegia No.1 was first published in Bottesini's Grande méthod complète de contrebasse (c.1869) to ill...