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Quartetto Italiano
12+ albums
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Biography by Robert Cummings The Quartetto Italiano is regarded as one of the finest string quartets of the twentieth century. The group generally focused on quartet-only repertory, avoiding performance with guest artists of quintets and other larger compositions. The ensemble's repertory was broad and included the entire quartet outputs of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, and Webern, and selected works of Galuppi, Vivaldi, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Bartók, Shostakovich, Villa-Lobos, Schoenberg, and many others. Members of the Quartetto Italiano first met and performed as an ensemble in Siena, Italy, in 1942. But they did not officially bond until after the end of World War II, in summer 1945. The musicians, all still in their early twenties, adopted the name Nuovo Quartetto Italiano and debuted at Carpi, Italy, in November that year. (The Nuovo tag was dropped in 1951.) The personnel of the group were: Paolo Borciani (first violin), Elisa Pegreffi (second violin), Lionello Forzanti (viola), and Franco Rossi (cello). 1946 was a pivotal year for the group: it won competitions at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and at the Accademia Filarmonica Romana and made a successful recording debut with the Debussy Quartet. They began touring Europe in 1947, but now with a new violist, Piero Farulli. By the early 1950s the Quartetto Italiano had achieved a measure of international celebrity, though its repertory had not expanded significantly beyond French and Italian music,
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Quartet la Caccia, K. 458: II. Minuetto
9362Quartet la Caccia, K. 458: I. Allegro, Vivace assai
8453Quartet la Caccia, K. 458: III. Adagio
8004Quartet la Caccia, K. 458: IV. Allegro assai
76452. Andante
6286Milhaud: String Quartet No. 12: I. Modere
62274. Molto allegro
5998String Quartet No. 14 in G Major, K. 387: IV. Molto allegro
5719Mozart: String Quartet #14 In G, K 387, "Spring" - Molto Allegro
40010Debussy: String Quartet In G Minor, Op. 10 - Andantino Doucement Expressif
203albums
Mozart: Quartet la Caccia, Symphony 16, Symphony 551 Jupiter
Mozart: The String Quartets (8 CDs, Vol.12 of 45)
Debussy & Ravel String Quartets
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Mozart for Your Mind - Boost Your Brain Power
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Debussy For Daydreaming - Music To Caress Your Innermost Thoughts
Schubert: The Last Four Quartets
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Mozart For Your Mind
Debussy: String Quartet in G minor / Ravel: String Quartet in F
Beethoven: The Late String Quartets
Beethoven: Complete String Quartets
Schubert / Debussy / Milhaud
Gabrieli, Marini, Neri, Vitali, Scarlatti & Vivaldi: Il quartetto d'archi in Italia nel XVII secolo