Alla Maniera Italiana Ensemble - Ricci: 6 String Quartets, Op. VIII (2021)

  • 01 Jan, 06:44
  • change text size:

Artist:
Title: Ricci: 6 String Quartets, Op. VIII
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: Urania Records
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 56:15
Total Size: 263 MB
WebSite:

Tracklist:

01. String Quartet No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 8 No. 1: I. Lento ed affettuoso
02. String Quartet No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 8 No. 1: II. Allegro spiritoso
03. String Quartet No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 8 No. 1: III. Minuetto. Maestoso - Rondeaux
04. String Quartet No. 2 in D Major, Op. 8 No. 2: I. Adagio con moto
05. String Quartet No. 2 in D Major, Op. 8 No. 2: II. Allegro
06. String Quartet No. 2 in D Major, Op. 8 No. 2: III. Minuetto. Sostenuto
07. String Quartet No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 8 No. 3: I. Largo
08. String Quartet No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 8 No. 3: II. Presto assai
09. String Quartet No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 8 No. 3: III. Minuetto. Maestoso
10. String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, Op. 8 No. 4: I. Grazioso
11. String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, Op. 8 No. 4: II. Cantabile
12. String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, Op. 8 No. 4: III. Vivace - Lento ed espressivo - Vivace
13. String Quartet No. 5 in G Major, Op. 8 No. 5: I. Grazioso
14. String Quartet No. 5 in G Major, Op. 8 No. 5: II. Minuetto. Tempo giusto
15. String Quartet No. 5 in G Major, Op. 8 No. 5: III. Andante
16. String Quartet No. 6 in D Major, Op. 8 No. 6: I. Minuetto. Maestoso
17. String Quartet No. 6 in D Major, Op. 8 No. 6: II. Adagio ma non troppo
18. String Quartet No. 6 in D Major, Op. 8 No. 6: III. Spiritoso e gajo - Minuetto flebile - Spiritoso e gajo

The world premiere recording of Francesco Pasquale Ricci's Six String Quartets Op. VIII performed by Alla Maniera Italiana Ensemble.

The galante repertoire became popular in Italy around 1770: composers such as Pasquale Ricci and Francesco Zappa, who wrote in galante style, were judged by Leopold Mozart as minor lights inside the European music panorama. Yet, their success in the Netherlands was huge and mainly due to their Italian way of understanding music. Inspiration, impulse, enthusiasm and brilliance are those features which arrived to the present thanks to the witness of that epoch, and are here collected by Alla Maniera Italiana Ensemble.