Quartetto Italiano: Prima la musica - The Complete Warner Recordings

 
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Quartetto Italiano: Prima la musica - The Complete Warner Recordings
Quartetto Italiano

[ Warner Classics / 14 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Friday 11 June 2021

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"The finest string quartet, unquestionably, that our century has known." In 1951, when the Quartetto Italiano first visited the USA, composer Virgil Thomson's was enthused: "Perfection is the only word to describe this playing." The quartet's members, who had met while studying in Siena, made their ensemble debut in 1945. They went on to enthral audiences around the world with interpretations of proverbial beauty, insight and architectural elegance. In this collection, presenting their entire Warner Classics discography, their subtle mastery is as evident in essential Austro-German repertoire as in Italian music spanning five centuries and works by Debussy, Ravel, Milhaud, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Complementing the catalogue they built between 1953 and 1959 is their very first recording, made in 1946 when they were still known as the Nuovo Quartetto Italiano. The collection, entirely remastered, features a number of recordings appearing on CD for the first time.

Tracks:

Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 [2 recordings]

Vinci, Leonardo: Gavotta (from Soli per violino e arpicordo)

Boccherini: Quartet No. 55 (Op. 39 - G213)
Boccherini: String Quartet Op. 58 No. 2
Boccherini: String Quartet in G major, Op. 44 No. 4, G223, 'La Tiranna'

Mozart: String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K387 'Spring'
Mozart: String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K421
Mozart: String Quartet No. 17 in B flat major, K458 'The Hunt'
Mozart: String Quartet No. 3 in G major, K156

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major, Op. 130
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 74 'Harp'

Milhaud: String Quartet No. 12, Op. 252

Brahms: String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major, Op. 67

Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 3 No. 5 in F major
Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 76 No. 2 in D minor 'Fifths'
Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 33 No. 3 in C major 'The Bird'
Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 76 No. 4 in B flat major 'Sunrise'

Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 92

Malipiero: String Quartet No. 4

Schubert: String Quartet No. 2 in C major, D32

Galuppi: Concerto a quattro in G minor

Cambini: String Quartet in G minor

Gabrieli, G: Canzon I 'La Spiritata'
Gabrieli, G: Canzon Quarta

Marini, B: Balletto primo

Neri: Sonata V a 4

Vitali, G: Capriccio

Scarlatti, A: Sonata a quattro in D minor

Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings in E flat major 'Sonata al Santo Sepolcro', RV130

Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op. 41 No. 3

Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet

Ravel: String Quartet in F major