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Quartetto Italiano
Plays Mozart Haydn Schubert
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (15) - Disc #1
1. Str Qt No.39 in C, Op.33 No.3 'Bird': I. Allegro Moderato
2. Str Qt No.39 in C, Op.33 No.3 'Bird': II. Scherzando (Allegretto)
3. Str Qt No.39 in C, Op.33 No.3 'Bird': III. Adagio
4. Str Qt No.39 in C, Op.33 No.3 'Bird': IV. Rondo (Presto)
5. Str Qt No.17 in B Flat, K. 458 'Hunt': I. Allegro Vivace Assai
6. Str Qt No.17 in B Flat, K. 458 'Hunt': II. Minuet (Moderato) & Trio
7. Str Qt No.17 in B Flat, K. 458 'Hunt': III. Adagio
8. Str Qt No.17 in B Flat, K. 458 'Hunt': IV. Allegro Assai
9. Str Qt No.3 in G, K. 156: I. Presto
10. Str Qt No.3 in G, K. 156: II. Adagio
11. Str Qt No.3 in G, K. 156: III. Minuet & Trio
12. Str Qt No.2 in C, D. 32: I. Presto
13. Str Qt No.2 in C, D. 32: II. Andante
14. Str Qt No.2 in C, D. 32: III. Minuet & Trio
15. Str Qt No.2 in C, D. 32: IV. Allegro Con Spirito

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CD Details

All Artists: Quartetto Italiano
Title: Plays Mozart Haydn Schubert
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Testament UK
Release Date: 8/11/1998
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 749677112523

Synopsis

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Though this celebrated Italian quartet reached the apex of its international recording career in the 1970s with the Philips label, its earlier EMI recordings show the quartet before its supersuave exterior gloss that made it the polar opposite of the Juilliard String Quartet. Those who feel the Italians became bland may find these EMI recordings to their liking. Taped between 1956 and 1959, they're more pointed and descriptive--they'd have to be to deal with Haydn's picturesque effects in Op. 33 No. 3 ("The Bird")--and they capture Schubert's youthful rawness in String Quartet in C, D. 32. The two Mozart quartets, K. 156 and K. 458 ("The Hunt"), however, look forward to the best element of Quartetto Italiano's later style with entrancing treatment of slow movements. --David Patrick Stearns