Quartetto Italiano
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, and their tone and approach were thought to lack depth. In 1952 Borciani and Pegreffi married. Around this time the four players had begun to evolve a more complex style, said to have resulted largely from mentoring by conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.
By the 1960s the ensemble had developed a world-class reputation. Between 1967 and 1975 they recorded all the Beethoven string quartets for Philips, regarded by many as the finest of available cycles of the 15 masterworks. Numerous other works were recorded as well during this period for the same label, including the Prokofiev Second Quartet, and the Ravel and Debussy (which they recorded three times).
With their many successful tours at home and abroad (11 of North America by 1980) and their spate of acclaimed recordings, the group had probably reached its zenith by the mid-'70s. In 1977 Farulli became ill and was temporarily replaced by Dino Asciolla. Misunderstandings following Farulli's recovery led to the ultimate breakup of the group in 1980.
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Quartetto Italiano - Il nostro concerto
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Brahms: Piano Quintet Op.34
Maurizio Pollini, Quartetto Italiano
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 01/01/1980
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Italian String Quartets
Chamber Music - Lançado por SWR Mediaservices GmbH em 01/02/2016
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Mozart: The String Quartets
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 01/01/1986
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Beethoven, Mozart & Boccherini: Quatuors à cordes (Mono Version)
Quartetto Italiano, Paolo Borciani, Elisa Pegreffi, Piero Farulli, Franco Rossi
Miscellaneous - Lançado por BNF Collection em 01/01/1954
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Boccherini, Mozart & Beethoven: String Quartets (Live)
Classical - Lançado por Ica Classics em 30/04/2012
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Quartetto Italiano Plays Schubert, Debussy & Milhaud
Classical - Lançado por Urania em 01/01/2005
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Haydn & Mozart: String Quartets Op. 77, No. 1 - No. 2 in D major, K155 - Op. 64, No. 6
Classical - Lançado por Infinity em 18/06/2021
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Haydn, Mozart & Brahms
Quartetto Italiano, Albert Spalding, Ernő Dohnányi
Quartets - Lançado por Altair em 07/08/2023
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Grandi maestri dell'interpretazione: Quartetto Italiano (Live)
Chamber Music - Lançado por Stradivarius em 04/01/1989
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Busoni: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
Quartetto Italiano, Hamann Quartet
Chamber Music - Lançado por SWR Mediaservices GmbH em 01/05/2013
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Mozart: Quintette pour clarinette et cordes, K. 581 (Mono Version)
Antoine-Pierre de Bavier, Quartetto Italiano, Paolo Borciani, Elisa Pegreffi, Piero Farulli, Franco Rossi
Miscellaneous - Lançado por BNF Collection em 01/01/1953
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Brahms: Quatuor à cordes No. 3 (Mono Version)
Miscellaneous - Lançado por BNF Collection em 01/01/1956
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Beethoven : String Quartet No. 10 (Mono Version)
Chamber Music - Lançado por BNF Collection em 01/01/1960
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Brahms & Haydn
Albert Spalding, Ernő Dohnányi, Quartetto Italiano
Classical - Lançado por Altair em 07/08/2023
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Bruckner & Beethoven
Strub Quartet, Emil Seiler, Quartetto Italiano
Quartets - Lançado por Altair em 10/07/2023
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Debussy & Milhaud: Quatuors à cordes (Mono Version)
Quartetto Italiano, Paolo Borciani, Elisa Pegreffi, Piero Farulli, Franco Rossi
Miscellaneous - Lançado por BNF Collection em 01/01/1954
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Mozart: Quatuors à cordes Nos. 2 & 23 (Mono Version)
Quartetto Italiano, Paolo Borciani, Elisa Pegreffi, Piero Farulli, Franco Rossi
Classical - Lançado por BNF Collection em 01/01/1954
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Beethoven: Quatuor No. 9, Op. 59 No. 3 - Schubert: Quartettsatz (Mono Version)
Quartetto Italiano, Paolo Borciani, Elisa Pegreffi, Piero Farulli, Franco Rossi
Miscellaneous - Lançado por BNF Collection em 01/01/1952
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Quartetto Italiano - The Complete RIAS Recordings
Chamber Music - Lançado por Audite em 03/05/2019
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Mozart, W.A.: Clarinet Quintet, K. 581 (De Bavier, Quartetto Italiano) (1952)
Antoine de Bavier, Quartetto Italiano
Chamber Music - Lançado por Naxos Classical Archives em 01/01/2000
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