Italian String Quartets

1. String quartet
Composed by Nino Rota
with Demetrio Comuzzi , Luigi Mazza , Alessandro Simoncini , Luca Simoncini

2. String Quartet, for quinton, and violas d'amore, da gamba & da basso, in D major, P. 61
Composed by Ottorino Respighi
with Demetrio Comuzzi , Luigi Mazza , Alessandro Simoncini , Luca Simoncini

3. String quartet No 3 "Cantari alla madrigalesca"
Composed by Gian Francesco Malipiero
with Demetrio Comuzzi , Luigi Mazza , Alessandro Simoncini , Luca Simoncini

Italian String Quartets,Rota/Respighi/Malipiero,Claves,Classical,Classical Composers

Average customer rating: A top choice in these two quartets, with highly personal music-making

Debussy & Ravel: String Quartets (Italian Quartet) [IMPORT] Quartetto Italiano , Claude Debussy , Maurice Ravel , 1st violin; Elisa Pegreffi, 2nd violin Italian Quartet: Paolo Borciani , and viola; Franco Rossi, cello Piero Farulli Manufacturer: Philips ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000060MDS Release Date: 2002-01-28

Tracks:

1. Anime Et Tres Decide
2. Scherzo
3. Andantino Doucement Expressif
4. Tres Modere
5. Allegro Moderato. Tres Doux
6. Assez Vif. Tres Rythme
7. Tres Lent
8. Vif Et Agite

Customer Reviews:

A top choice in these two quartets, with highly personal music-making.......2006-08-17

Pairing Debussy and Ravel in their only string quartets is a cliche by now, and buyers have a wide range of choice. In terms of sheer virtuosity, no one has excelled the Alban Berg Qt., (EMI), who play with seamless technique and gleaming tone. but it all osunds a bit too efficient and impersonal. There's more atmosphere in the version by the Tokyo Qt., among others.

I listened to half a dozen recordings before settling on this one form the Quartetto Italiano. (they were together for so long that you can get a historic mono recording of the smae music on EMI). The Quartetto doesn't try to sound airy, diaphanous, or particularly French. Instead, they give a presonal, uniquely phrased version that sounds as if each player is esponding from deep feelings about the music. That's rare in performances of Debussy and Ravel, where the syle is more or less locked in. the miking is quite close, and although they lack the sheen of the Bertg Qt, the Quartetto Italiano deserves their reputaiton for making beautiful sounds.

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Puccini: Songs & Rare Pieces Manufacturer: Etcetera ProductGroup: Classical Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000K3O9WW

Product Description

American soprano Roberta Alexander performs songs and other rare pieces by Puccini (tracks 1-9), along with Tan Crone on piano (tracks 1-6, 8-11) and the Raphael String Quartet (tracks 12-17). This Dutch import from 1987 has excellent audio quality and contains seventeen tracks: (1) Terra E Mare (1902); (2) Storiella D'Amore (1883); (3) E L'uccellino (Ninna-Nanna) (1899); (4) Morire? (1917); (5) Inno a Diana (Hymn to Diana) (1899); (6) Menti All'avviso (1883); (7) Salve Regina (1880); (8) Sole E Amore (1888); (9) Avanti Urania! (1899); (10) Piccolo Tango (1907); (11) Foglio D'Album (1907); (12) Quartet in D Major, Allegro moderato (1880); (13) I Crisantemi, Andante mesto (1890); (14) Minuetto I, Moderato; (15) Minuetto II, Allegretto; (16) Minuetto III, Assai mosso; (17) Scherzo in A Minor, Allegro vivo (1880).

Average customer rating: JANACEK AS HE DOESN'T USUALLY SOUND

Janacek: String Quartets 1 & 2; Wolf: Italian Serenade Hagen Quartet Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Janácek, Leos | ( J ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolf | Wolf, Hugo | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Debussy, Ravel, Webern: String Quartets String Quartets Beethoven: Great Fugue Op.133/Schubert: String Quintet D.956 [IMPORT] ASIN: B00000E4EJ Release Date: 1989-09-05

Tracks:

1. St Qt No.1: 1. Adagio - Con Moto
2. St Qt No.1: 2. Con Moto
3. St Qt No.1: 3. Con Moto - Vivace - Andante - Tempo I
4. St Qt No.1: 4. Con Moto
5. St Qt No.2 'Intimate Letters': 1. Andante - Con Moto - Allegro
6. St Qt No.2 'Intimate Letters': 2. Adagio - Vivace - Andante - Presto - Allegro - Vivo - Adagio
7. St Qt No.2 'Intimate Letters': 3. Moderato - Adagio - Allegro
8. St Qt No.2 'Intimate Letters': 4. Allegro - Andante - Con Moto - Adagio - Tempo I
9. Italian Ser in G, WW XV/3: Molto Vivo

Customer Reviews:

JANACEK AS HE DOESN'T USUALLY SOUND.......2005-10-28

If you are familiar with Janacek's quartets this disc may take you a little aback. Some of the sound-effects, particularly from the leader, are pretty extraordinary. At any rate they are to me, accustomed as I am to the eponymous Janacek Quartet in their recording from the 60's. I am already familiar with the Hagens' work from their outstanding set of the Bartok quartets, and I had always previously thought of Janacek as much the more conservative and traditional composer of the two. In this opinion I had reckoned without the Hagens. These two works are much of a muchness in both expression and construction. They express the seemingly extreme passion of a man in his 60's and 70's for a woman he rarely met and knew principally through correspondence, and the second quartet never actually had its first public performance until after his death at the age of 74. This is not the kind of passion that finds expression to any great extent in poetry, let alone in music, let alone in string quartets. I am that sort of age myself, and I'm quite sure I wouldn't know how to put it across if it were up to me. I was all the more curious, therefore, to hear how a group of ultra-talented youngsters might go about it.

These accounts are not characterised by understatement. Everything, but everything, is hyped from beginning to end. From a glance at the back of the record-box you would get a superficial impression of two quartets in four-movement formats like Haydn's or Brahms's. They are nothing like that even in a `standard' performance. The music is constantly interrupted by passionate expostulations, there are constant changes of tempo apparent even from an outline description, and continuity or fluency in either the structure or the expression seems to be the last thing the composer was after. What I am used to from the Janacek Quartet and from other interpretations is a feeling that the composer has gone quite far enough in this respect and that where there is a sense of normality in the music they should make the most of it. The Hagens on the other hand emphasise every stoppage and interruption to the full, and treat other forceful episodes with the utmost power and emphasis. We have not got far into the first movement of the first quartet before we hear some violin-tone that is, to put it mildly, arresting; and this is the first such incident of many. It would not be logical to find any lack of variety in playing like this, but I think it would be fair to say that the variety is mainly in the sharper and more highly coloured effects rather than in any richer and warmer tones, which do not seem to be how these players hear these pieces.

It all seized me pretty powerfully. The Hagens know what they are about, whether one `agrees' or not with their sense of the music. I've already said that I myself have never had any settled view of how music like this, the wordless expression in sound of a mentality I don't think I quite understand, should be or may be interpreted. At times the music verges on incoherence and even on inarticulacy, and what surely must be the wrong way of doing it is to underplay it. That leaves a pretty fair field wide open, as I have now been made to realise. Am I supposed to `recommend' this disc? Thinking about it, why ever not? If you are open-minded and receptive there's a fair chance you may take to it in a big way. If you are stuffy and middle-of-the-road it will do you good. From any point of view, do what I did not do and sample it first. As a makeweight there is a very good performance of Wolf's Italian serenade, with a lot of bounce in the rhythm and also the right feeling of irony and more-than-meets-the-ear to it, delivered in a quiet and knowing tone. This group will go far.

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Antonio Sacchini: 6 String Quartets, Op. 2 - Quartetto Stauffer Antonio Sacchini , and Quartetto Stauffer Manufacturer: Arkadia: the 78's ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Leoncavallo | Leoncavallo, Ruggiero | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mascagni | Mascagni, Pietro | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Massenet | Massenet, Jules | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mussorgsky | Mussorgsky, Modest | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Puccini | Puccini, Giacomo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Saint-Saëns, Camille | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolf-Ferrari | Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Russian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008EP1Q Release Date: 1996-01-30

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Debussy & Ravel: String Quartets (Italian Quartet) Claude Debussy , Maurice Ravel , Quartetto Italiano , 1st violin; Elisa Pegreffi, 2nd violin Italian Quartet: Paolo Borciani , and viola; Franco Rossi, cello Piero Farulli Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000E3N0 Release Date: 1990-10-25

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String Quartets/Italian Serenade Ginastera , Wolf , Debussy , and Bergonzi String Quart Manufacturer: Fleur De Son ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003Y7S Release Date: 2000-08-17

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Three Italian String Quartets Manufacturer: Claves ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Respighi | Respighi, Ottorino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Rota, Nino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000KLNLQO Release Date: 2002-02-01

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String Quartets / Nomos Quartet Manufacturer: Nm Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolf | Wolf, Hugo | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000J5RR Release Date: 1999-09-15

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Three Italian String Quartets Manufacturer: Claves ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Respighi | Respighi, Ottorino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Rota, Nino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000045BY Release Date: 1997-06-17

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Complete Beethoven Edition, Vol. 18: Secular Vocal Works Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Beethoven | Beethoven, Ludwig van | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Studer, Cheryl | ( S ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Partsongs | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Wedding Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Complete Beethoven Edition, Vol. 4: Fidelio/Leonore Complete Beethoven Edition, Vol. 11: Early String Quartets Complete Beethoven Edition, Vol. 13: Late String Quartets Complete Beethoven Edition, Vol. 16: Lieder Complete Beethoven Edition, Vol. 9: Piano Trios ASIN: B000001GZL Release Date: 1997-12-09

Tracks:

1. Weltliche Vokalwerke: 'Elegiac Song
2. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Opferlied Op.121b - 'Sacrificial Song'
3. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Bundeslied Op.122 - 'Song Of Fellowship'
4. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Ah! perfido Op.65
5. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Test Of Kissing - WoO 89
6. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Getting On With Girls
7. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Premier Amour - WoO 92
8. Weltliche Vokalwerke: No, Do Not Fear
9. Weltliche Vokalwerke: In Your Days Of Happiness - WoO 93
10. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Tremble, Guilty Ones, Tremble, Op. 116

Tracks:

1. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Lovely Lips - WoO 99, No. 1 (Hess 211)
2. Weltliche Vokalwerke: You Are My Love - Hess 231
3. Weltliche Vokalwerke: In You I Crave - WoO 99 - 11 (Hess 215)
4. Zenobia: Amid All Griefs - WoO 99 - No. 3a
5. Zenobia: Do You Want Your Husband Safe? (Hess 228)
6. Weltliche Vokalwerke: But You Tremble - WoO 99 - 6 (Hess 212)
7. Weltliche Vokalwerke: The Steersman Swears - WoO 99 - No. 5b (Hess 227)
8. Weltliche Vokalwerke: For You May The Sky - WoO 99 - No. 9 (Hess 216)
9. Zenobia: Amid All Griefs - WoO 99 - No. 3b (Hess 225)
10. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Ah, Yet You Are That Lyre - WoO 99 - No. 10b (Hess 218)
11. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Whoever Will Know WoO 99 - 2 (Hess 214)
12. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Mehrstimmige Gesange - Gia la notte s'avvicina WoO 99 - 4b
13. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Mehrstimmige Gesange - Nei campi e nelle selve WoO 99 - 7a (Hess 217)
14. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Mehrstimmige Gesange - Nei campi e nelle selve WoO 99 - 7b (Hess 220)
15. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Mehrstimmige Gesange - Fra tutte le pene WoO 99 - 3c (Hess 224)
16. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Mehrstimmige Gesange - Fra tutte le pene Hess 210
17. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Mehrstimmige Gesange - Quella cetra ah pur tu sei WoO 99 - 10a (Hess 213)
18. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Mehrstimmige Gesange - Quella cetra ah pur tu sei WoO 99 - 10c (Hess 219)
19. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Mehrstimmige Gesange - Giura il nocchier Hess 230
20. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Mehrstimmige Gesange - Giura il nocchier WoO 99 - 5a (Hess 221)
21. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Mehrstimmige Gesange - Gia la notte s'avvicina WoO 99 - 4a (Hess 222)
22. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Abschiedsgesant Wo0 103
23. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Cantata campestre Wo0 103
24. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Gesang der Monche Wo0 104
25. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Hochzietslied Wo0 105
26. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Lobkowitz - Kantate Wo0 106
27. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Chor auf die verbundeten Fursten Wo0 95
28. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Lob auf den Dicken Wo0 100
29. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Graf, liebster Graf Wo0 101
30. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Im Arm der Liebe ruht sich's wohl Wo0 159
31. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Ewig dein Wo0 161
32. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Kurz ist der Schmerz Wo0 163
33. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Freundschaft ist die Quelle wahrer Gluckseligkeit Wo0 164
34. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Gluck zum neuen Jahr! Wo0 166
35. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Kurz ist der Schmerz Wo0 166
36. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Brauchle, Linke Wo0 167
37. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Das Schweigen Wo0 168 - 1
38. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Das Reden Wo0 168 - 2
39. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Ich kusse Sie Wo0169
40. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Ars longa, vita brevis Wo0 170
41. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Ich Bitt' dick, schreib mir die Es - Skala auf Wo0 172
42. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Hol' euch der Teufel! B'hut euch Gott! Wo0 173
43. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Glaube und hoffe! Wo0 174
44. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Sankt Petrus war ein Fels! Wo0 176
45. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Glaube und hoffe! Wo0 174
46. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Bester Magistrat, lhr friert! Wo0 177
47. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Signor Abate! Wo0 178
48. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Alles Gute Wo0 179
49. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Hoffmann, sei ja kein Hofmann Wo0 180
50. Weltliche Vokalwerke: O Tobias! Wo0 182
51. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Bester Herr Graf, Sie sind ein Schaf! Wo0 183
52. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Falstafferel, lab dich sehen! Wo0 184
53. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Edel sei der Mensch Wo0 185
54. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Te Solo Adoro Wo0 186
55. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Schwenke dich ohne Schwanke! Wo0 187
56. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Gott ist eine feste Burg Wo0 188
57. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Doktor sperrt das Tor dem Tod Wo0 189
58. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Ich war hier, Doktor, ich war hier Wo0 190
59. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Kuhl, nicht lau Wo0 192
60. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Ars Longa, vita brevis Wo0 192
61. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Ars longa, vita brevis Wo0 193
62. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Si non per portas, per muros Wo0 194
63. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Freu dich des Lebens! Wo0 195
64. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Es mub sein! Woo 196
65. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Da ist das Werk Wo0 197
66. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Wir irren allesamt Wo0198
67. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Das Schone zum Guten! Wo0 203
68. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Das Schone za dem Gutten! Wo0 202
69. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Herr Graf, ich komme zu fragen Hess 276
70. Weltliche Vokalwerke: Esel aller Estel # 277

Track Listings:

1. Jersild: Vocal & Instrumental Works
2. Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1/Tragic Overture
3. Koechlin: Paysages et Marines Op63; Pieces Op178
4. Lassus: Magnificat; Ave Maria
5. Late Piano Works
6. Leos Janácek: Orchestral Works - Danube / Incidental Music to Schluck & Jau / Moravian Dances / Suite, Op. 3
7. Love Is Blue: Music for Lonely Lovers
8. Luciana Serra - Arie di Rossini · Bellini · Donizetti · Verdi · Thomas · Meyerbeer
9. Luigi Boccherini: Six Sonatas For Flute & Harpsichord, Op. 5
10. Machaut: Messe Nostre Dame; Perotin, Demantius and LeChancelier: Musique a Notre-Dame de Paris

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Punk Lives [Import]

Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Highlights / Francesca da Rimini

Touch of Class [Import]

Music: Risk

The Songwriter

The Best of Tavares

Top 25 Hymns For Today

Solbiati: Musica da camera (Trio d'archi/Sonata/Am fuss des gebirgs/ Sonetto/Mari)

The More I Learn

Soy Cubanito

Step Outside

Street Between Sunrise... [Import]

This Is the Best of Chillout [Box set] [Import]

Mozart, Wolf-Ferrari, Hummel: Bassoon Concertos

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