Venezia String Quartet - Italian String Quartets by Boccherini, Bazzini, Verdi, Puccini, Zandonai, Respighi, and Malipiero (2005)
BAND/ARTIST: Venezia String Quartet
- Title: Italian String Quartets by Boccherini, Bazzini, Verdi, Puccini, Zandonai, Respighi, and Malipiero
- Year Of Release: 2005
- Label: Dynamic
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless +Booklet
- Total Time: 10:26:24
- Total Size: 2.63 gb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
CD1
01. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 8, No. 1, G. 165: I. Allegro assai
02. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 8, No. 1, G. 165: II. Adagio
03. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 8, No. 1, G. 165: III. Rondeau
04. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 8, No. 2 , G. 166: I. Moderato
05. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 8, No. 2 , G. 166: II. Largo
06. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 8, No. 2 , G. 166: III. Allegro
07. String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 8, No. 3, G. 167: I. Largo
08. String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 8, No. 3, G. 167: II. Allegro
09. String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 8, No. 3, G. 167: III. Tempo di minuetto
10. String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 8, No. 4, G. 168: I. Allegro
11. String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 8, No. 4, G. 168: II. Grave
12. String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 8, No. 4, G. 168: III. Allegro non troppo
13. String Quartet in F Major, Op. 8, No. 5, G. 169: I. Andantino con un poco di moto
14. String Quartet in F Major, Op. 8, No. 5, G. 169: II. Allegro
15. String Quartet in F Major, Op. 8, No. 5, G. 169: III. Tempo di minuetto
16. String Quartet in A Major, Op. 8, No. 6, G. 170: I. Allegro brillante
17. String Quartet in A Major, Op. 8, No. 6, G. 170: II. Amoroso
18. String Quartet in A Major, Op. 8, No. 6, G. 170: III. Allegro maestoso
CD2
01. String Quartet in F Major, Op. 64, No. 1, G. 248: I. Allegro molto
02. String Quartet in F Major, Op. 64, No. 1, G. 248: II. Adagio non tanto
03. String Quartet in F Major, Op. 64, No. 1, G. 248: III. Allegro vivo
04. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 64, G. 249
05. String Quartet in A Major, Op. 39, G. 213: I. Allegro moderato
06. String Quartet in A Major, Op. 39, G. 213: II. Minuetto
07. String Quartet in A Major, Op. 39, G. 213: III. Grave
08. String Quartet in A Major, Op. 39, G. 213: IV. Allegro giusto
09. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 41, No. 1, G. 214: I. Prestissimo
10. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 41, No. 1, G. 214: II. Tempo di minuetto
11. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 41, No. 1, G. 214: III. Andante flebile
12. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 41, No. 1, G. 214: IV. Prestissimo
13. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 41, No. 2, G. 215: I. Allegro moderato assai
14. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 41, No. 2, G. 215: II. Minuetto: Allegro
15. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 41, No. 2, G. 215: III. Larghetto affetuoso
16. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 41, No. 2, G. 215: IV. Rondeau: Allegro moderato
CD3
01. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 52, No. 1, G. 232: I. Allegro con moto
02. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 52, No. 1, G. 232: II. Minuetto
03. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 52, No. 1, G. 232: III. Adagio
04. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 52, No. 1, G. 232: IV. Allegro giusto
05. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 52, No. 2, G. 233: I. Allegretto vivace assai
06. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 52, No. 2, G. 233: II. Andantino patetico
07. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 52, No. 2, G. 233: III. Minuetto: Allegro risoluto
08. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 52, No. 2, G. 233: IV. Rondeau: Allegretto
09. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 52, No. 3, G. 234: I. Allegretto con moto
10. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 52, No. 3, G. 234: II. Minuetto
11. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 52, No. 3, G. 234: III. Adagio
12. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 52, No. 3, G. 234: IV. Allegro giusto
13. String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 52, No. 4, G. 235: I. Allegretto appassionato
14. String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 52, No. 4, G. 235: II. Minuetto con moto
15. String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 52, No. 4, G. 235: III. Adagio non tanto
16. String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 52, No. 4, G. 235: IV. Allegro assai
CD4
01. String Quartet in C Major: I. Adagio-Allegro risoluto
02. String Quartet in C Major: II. Andante sostenuto
03. String Quartet in C Major: III. Scherzo: Allegro vivo
04. String Quartet in C Major: IV. Finale: Allegro deciso
05. String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 75: I. Allegro appassionato
06. String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 75: II. Andante con moto
07. String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 75: III. Gavotte: Allegretto
08. String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 75: IV. Quasi presto
CD5
01. String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 76: I. Molto sostenuto-Allegro vivo
02. String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 76: II. Minuetto: Allegro giusto
03. String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 76: III. Andante quasi allegretto-Allegro impetuoso-Andante cantabile
04. String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 76: IV. Vivacissimo
05. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 79: I. Allegro giusto
06. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 79: II. Lento
07. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 79: III. Tempo di gavotta
08. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 79: IV. Allegro con fuoco
CD6
01. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 80: I. Allegro appassionato
02. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 80: II. Andante
03. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 80: III. Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto
04. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 80: IV. Allegro agitato-Vivace con fuoco
05. String Quartet in F Major: I. Allegro
06. String Quartet in F Major: II. Andante espressivo
07. String Quartet in F Major: III. Saltarello: Vivacissimo
08. String Quartet in F Major: IV. Allegro energico
CD7
01. String Quartet in E Minor: I. Allegro
02. String Quartet in E Minor: II. Andantino
03. String Quartet in E Minor: III. Prestissimo
04. String Quartet in E Minor: IV. Scherzo fuga
05. Crisantemi
06. String Quartet in G Major: I. Allegro moderato
07. String Quartet in G Major: II. Presto
08. String Quartet in G Major: III. Adagio
09. String Quartet in G Major: IV. Allegro
CD8
01. Quartetto dorico, P. 144: Quartetto Dorico
02. String Quartet in D Minor, P. 91: I. Allegro-Meno-Tempo I-Meno-Meno mosso e molto calmo
03. String Quartet in D Minor, P. 91: II. Lentamente con tristezza
04. String Quartet in D Minor, P. 91: III. Presto-Meno mosso-Allegretto-Tempo I
05. String Quartet in D Minor, P. 91: IV. Allegro energico
CD9
01. String Quartet No. 1, "Rispetti e strambotti"
02. String Quartet No. 2, "Stornelli e ballate"
03. String Quartet No. 3, "Cantari alla madrigalesca"
04. String Quartet No. 4
CD10
01. String Quartet No. 5, "Dei capricci"
02. String Quartet No. 6, "L'arca di Noe"
03. String Quartet No. 7
04. String Quartet No. 8, "Per Elisabetta"
On the back cover of the booklet for this set are ads for other boxes in the series -- "4 CDs for the price of 3," reads one. And you can get another, better yet, at "9 CDs for the price of 3." This box of Italian string quartets, at 10 CDs for the price of three, must therefore be the best of all, right? Actually, all these cheapo boxes generally accomplish is the devaluation of the music inside, but if there's a purpose for them at all, it is to provide overviews of unusual repertoires. This release by the Quartetti di Venezia would seem to do that, for Italy is not the country that springs to mind when one thinks of the string quartet from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries -- the string quartet, with its high-minded aims, was a quintessentially Germanic genre. The set includes the String Quartet in E minor of Giuseppe Verdi, the only really well-known work in the bunch. If you've ever wondered what else was happening among Italian instrumentalists, you can learn a lot from this set, but its range could have been even greater. The first three discs are devoted to the quartets of Luigi Boccherini, all of them attractive works but none actually composed in Italy (Boccherini moved to Paris and then to Spain, where he worked for most of his life). Discs 4, 5, and 6 present the complete quartets of Antonio Bazzini, a composer and violinist who sought to promote instrumental music in a country whose musical life was dominated by opera. His six quartets are inspired by successive waves of Central European music, which he emulates with consummate skill. Not knowing their origin, it would be hard to guess that these works were Italian. By the time of the String Quartet No. 6 in F, written in the 1890s, Bazzini had clearly made the acquaintance of Dvorák's string quartets with their folkish rhythms and pentatonic scales; even this example did not inspire him to try to evoke the vernacular musical world of his own country. Cutting the tracklist back to one or two Bazzini quartets would have permitted the inclusion of other composers, as would the elimination of some of Malipiero's quartets, which are available elsewhere. The strongest discs in the set are the seventh and eighth, which offer the Verdi quartet, an elegiac single-movement quartet piece by Puccini, a student effort by the operatic composer Riccardo Zandonai, and two works by Ottorino Respighi, one fairly youthful and one mature. The latter, the Quartetto Dorico of 1924, is a nice find. In place of the gigantic orchestral palette of his tone poems Respighi deploys a language characterized by rapidly shifting rhythms and musical gestures. It still contains the basic moods of his larger pieces, and it's unlike anything else in the quartet repertoire. The piece perhaps demands a more tense performance than it's given here by the Quartetti di Venezia, but the group is competent in rendering a wide range of material. It is likely that most listeners will find three CD's worth of music they like here.
CD1
01. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 8, No. 1, G. 165: I. Allegro assai
02. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 8, No. 1, G. 165: II. Adagio
03. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 8, No. 1, G. 165: III. Rondeau
04. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 8, No. 2 , G. 166: I. Moderato
05. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 8, No. 2 , G. 166: II. Largo
06. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 8, No. 2 , G. 166: III. Allegro
07. String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 8, No. 3, G. 167: I. Largo
08. String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 8, No. 3, G. 167: II. Allegro
09. String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 8, No. 3, G. 167: III. Tempo di minuetto
10. String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 8, No. 4, G. 168: I. Allegro
11. String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 8, No. 4, G. 168: II. Grave
12. String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 8, No. 4, G. 168: III. Allegro non troppo
13. String Quartet in F Major, Op. 8, No. 5, G. 169: I. Andantino con un poco di moto
14. String Quartet in F Major, Op. 8, No. 5, G. 169: II. Allegro
15. String Quartet in F Major, Op. 8, No. 5, G. 169: III. Tempo di minuetto
16. String Quartet in A Major, Op. 8, No. 6, G. 170: I. Allegro brillante
17. String Quartet in A Major, Op. 8, No. 6, G. 170: II. Amoroso
18. String Quartet in A Major, Op. 8, No. 6, G. 170: III. Allegro maestoso
CD2
01. String Quartet in F Major, Op. 64, No. 1, G. 248: I. Allegro molto
02. String Quartet in F Major, Op. 64, No. 1, G. 248: II. Adagio non tanto
03. String Quartet in F Major, Op. 64, No. 1, G. 248: III. Allegro vivo
04. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 64, G. 249
05. String Quartet in A Major, Op. 39, G. 213: I. Allegro moderato
06. String Quartet in A Major, Op. 39, G. 213: II. Minuetto
07. String Quartet in A Major, Op. 39, G. 213: III. Grave
08. String Quartet in A Major, Op. 39, G. 213: IV. Allegro giusto
09. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 41, No. 1, G. 214: I. Prestissimo
10. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 41, No. 1, G. 214: II. Tempo di minuetto
11. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 41, No. 1, G. 214: III. Andante flebile
12. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 41, No. 1, G. 214: IV. Prestissimo
13. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 41, No. 2, G. 215: I. Allegro moderato assai
14. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 41, No. 2, G. 215: II. Minuetto: Allegro
15. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 41, No. 2, G. 215: III. Larghetto affetuoso
16. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 41, No. 2, G. 215: IV. Rondeau: Allegro moderato
CD3
01. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 52, No. 1, G. 232: I. Allegro con moto
02. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 52, No. 1, G. 232: II. Minuetto
03. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 52, No. 1, G. 232: III. Adagio
04. String Quartet in C Major, Op. 52, No. 1, G. 232: IV. Allegro giusto
05. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 52, No. 2, G. 233: I. Allegretto vivace assai
06. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 52, No. 2, G. 233: II. Andantino patetico
07. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 52, No. 2, G. 233: III. Minuetto: Allegro risoluto
08. String Quartet in D Major, Op. 52, No. 2, G. 233: IV. Rondeau: Allegretto
09. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 52, No. 3, G. 234: I. Allegretto con moto
10. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 52, No. 3, G. 234: II. Minuetto
11. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 52, No. 3, G. 234: III. Adagio
12. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 52, No. 3, G. 234: IV. Allegro giusto
13. String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 52, No. 4, G. 235: I. Allegretto appassionato
14. String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 52, No. 4, G. 235: II. Minuetto con moto
15. String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 52, No. 4, G. 235: III. Adagio non tanto
16. String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 52, No. 4, G. 235: IV. Allegro assai
CD4
01. String Quartet in C Major: I. Adagio-Allegro risoluto
02. String Quartet in C Major: II. Andante sostenuto
03. String Quartet in C Major: III. Scherzo: Allegro vivo
04. String Quartet in C Major: IV. Finale: Allegro deciso
05. String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 75: I. Allegro appassionato
06. String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 75: II. Andante con moto
07. String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 75: III. Gavotte: Allegretto
08. String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 75: IV. Quasi presto
CD5
01. String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 76: I. Molto sostenuto-Allegro vivo
02. String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 76: II. Minuetto: Allegro giusto
03. String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 76: III. Andante quasi allegretto-Allegro impetuoso-Andante cantabile
04. String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 76: IV. Vivacissimo
05. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 79: I. Allegro giusto
06. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 79: II. Lento
07. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 79: III. Tempo di gavotta
08. String Quartet in G Major, Op. 79: IV. Allegro con fuoco
CD6
01. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 80: I. Allegro appassionato
02. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 80: II. Andante
03. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 80: III. Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto
04. String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 80: IV. Allegro agitato-Vivace con fuoco
05. String Quartet in F Major: I. Allegro
06. String Quartet in F Major: II. Andante espressivo
07. String Quartet in F Major: III. Saltarello: Vivacissimo
08. String Quartet in F Major: IV. Allegro energico
CD7
01. String Quartet in E Minor: I. Allegro
02. String Quartet in E Minor: II. Andantino
03. String Quartet in E Minor: III. Prestissimo
04. String Quartet in E Minor: IV. Scherzo fuga
05. Crisantemi
06. String Quartet in G Major: I. Allegro moderato
07. String Quartet in G Major: II. Presto
08. String Quartet in G Major: III. Adagio
09. String Quartet in G Major: IV. Allegro
CD8
01. Quartetto dorico, P. 144: Quartetto Dorico
02. String Quartet in D Minor, P. 91: I. Allegro-Meno-Tempo I-Meno-Meno mosso e molto calmo
03. String Quartet in D Minor, P. 91: II. Lentamente con tristezza
04. String Quartet in D Minor, P. 91: III. Presto-Meno mosso-Allegretto-Tempo I
05. String Quartet in D Minor, P. 91: IV. Allegro energico
CD9
01. String Quartet No. 1, "Rispetti e strambotti"
02. String Quartet No. 2, "Stornelli e ballate"
03. String Quartet No. 3, "Cantari alla madrigalesca"
04. String Quartet No. 4
CD10
01. String Quartet No. 5, "Dei capricci"
02. String Quartet No. 6, "L'arca di Noe"
03. String Quartet No. 7
04. String Quartet No. 8, "Per Elisabetta"
On the back cover of the booklet for this set are ads for other boxes in the series -- "4 CDs for the price of 3," reads one. And you can get another, better yet, at "9 CDs for the price of 3." This box of Italian string quartets, at 10 CDs for the price of three, must therefore be the best of all, right? Actually, all these cheapo boxes generally accomplish is the devaluation of the music inside, but if there's a purpose for them at all, it is to provide overviews of unusual repertoires. This release by the Quartetti di Venezia would seem to do that, for Italy is not the country that springs to mind when one thinks of the string quartet from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries -- the string quartet, with its high-minded aims, was a quintessentially Germanic genre. The set includes the String Quartet in E minor of Giuseppe Verdi, the only really well-known work in the bunch. If you've ever wondered what else was happening among Italian instrumentalists, you can learn a lot from this set, but its range could have been even greater. The first three discs are devoted to the quartets of Luigi Boccherini, all of them attractive works but none actually composed in Italy (Boccherini moved to Paris and then to Spain, where he worked for most of his life). Discs 4, 5, and 6 present the complete quartets of Antonio Bazzini, a composer and violinist who sought to promote instrumental music in a country whose musical life was dominated by opera. His six quartets are inspired by successive waves of Central European music, which he emulates with consummate skill. Not knowing their origin, it would be hard to guess that these works were Italian. By the time of the String Quartet No. 6 in F, written in the 1890s, Bazzini had clearly made the acquaintance of Dvorák's string quartets with their folkish rhythms and pentatonic scales; even this example did not inspire him to try to evoke the vernacular musical world of his own country. Cutting the tracklist back to one or two Bazzini quartets would have permitted the inclusion of other composers, as would the elimination of some of Malipiero's quartets, which are available elsewhere. The strongest discs in the set are the seventh and eighth, which offer the Verdi quartet, an elegiac single-movement quartet piece by Puccini, a student effort by the operatic composer Riccardo Zandonai, and two works by Ottorino Respighi, one fairly youthful and one mature. The latter, the Quartetto Dorico of 1924, is a nice find. In place of the gigantic orchestral palette of his tone poems Respighi deploys a language characterized by rapidly shifting rhythms and musical gestures. It still contains the basic moods of his larger pieces, and it's unlike anything else in the quartet repertoire. The piece perhaps demands a more tense performance than it's given here by the Quartetti di Venezia, but the group is competent in rendering a wide range of material. It is likely that most listeners will find three CD's worth of music they like here.
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