Three x three = four. Nine steps in the history of quartets
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The concert season of the San Teonisto church resumes in October.
The Foundation inaugurates the musical calendar with a journey through the quartet repertoire, entrusted to a chamber ensemble that is well-known and appreciated in Europe as well as worldwide, but is also a local pride: the Quartetto di Venezia (Andrea Vio, violin; Alberto Battiston, violin; Mario Paladin, viola; Angelo Zanin, cello). The ensemble, defined by Bruno Giuranna «at the top of their class and among the very few worthy of playing the role of the great quartets of the past,» will take the audience on a musical journey over three concerts that will offer a key to understand the quartet format over the centuries, from the Eighteenth century to Late Romanticism.
The cycle opens on Saturday, 27 October at 6pm with three fundamental pages of the quartet repertoire: the Adagio and Fugue in C minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the String Quartet in G major, Op. 18, No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven and the String Quartet Op.51, No.2 by Johannes Brahms.
It will continue on Sunday, 18 November at 6pm, with three more important stages in the development of the quartet form: the string quartet in G major by Luigi Boccherini, considered as the one who initiated the quartet form in its modern form, with nobasso continuo but with a marked attention and development of the cello and viola part; the world famous Mozartian “Dissonance” quartet, so named for its harmonic boldness; the very modern “Razumovsky” quartet op.59 no.3 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
The journey will end on Sunday, 9 December at 6pm with the “Emperor” quartet by Haydn and with two unusual offerings: the Italian Serenade by Hugo Wolf, in its original string quartet version, and the celebrated string quartet in E minor by Giuseppe Verdi, the only remaining chamber composition in Verdi’s opus, resounding with the poetic and rhetorical art of the great composer of operatic masterpieces.
Quartetto di Venezia have played at some of the greatest international festivals in Italy and abroad and in prestigious venues such as the National Gallery in Washington, the United Nations Palace in New York, the Unesco Auditorium in Paris, Palau de la Música in Barcelona, Société Philharmonique of Brussels, Konzerthaus Berlin, Beethovenfest in Bonn. They have played for Pope John Paul II and for the President of the Italian Republic. They were nominated at the Grammy Awards for the Navona CD “Ritornello” with music by Curt Cacioppo.