Quartetto di Cremona
Performers
Quartetto di Cremona
- Cristiano Gualco, Violin
- Paolo Andreoli, Violin
- Simone Gramaglia, Viola
- Giovanni Scaglione, Cello
Program
WOLF Italian Serenade
RAVEL String Quartet in F Major
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132
Encore:
J. S. BACH Contrapunctus I from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately two hours, including one 20-minute intermission.Salon Encores
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At a Glance
WOLF Italian Serenade
Among Wolf’s handful of purely instrumental works, the Italian Serenade is the moody Austrian composer’s ebullient valentine to the sunny Mediterranean. Max Reger praised Wolf’s short piece for its “enchanting tonal charm” and “highly original color.”
RAVEL String Quartet in F Major
Premiered in Paris in 1904, Ravel’s first and only string quartet signaled his emergence as Debussy’s artistic peer and heir apparent. The youthful masterpiece elicited favorable comparisons to the older composer’s celebrated Quartet of 1893, with which it is often paired on recordings. Recurring intervals, melodic shapes, textures, and sonorities give the four movements a strong sense of organic unity.
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132
Beethoven’s Op. 132, the second of three quartets commissioned by the Russian prince Nikolai Golitsin, centers on its transcendently beautiful slow movement, a deeply felt “song of thanksgiving” for the composer’s recovery from illness. Like many of Beethoven’s late-period works, the A-Minor Quartet expresses spiritual struggle through extreme contrasts of mood.