Classical Music for String Quartet

Thanks to their timeless tonal beauty and impressive technical refinement, these 'rediscovered' quartets will also find friends.

Each of the three quartets offers the players highly romantic 'equal' pleasure, with the technical demands of playing kept within bounds. The pieces are repertoire-worthy.

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The creative impetus, the variability of expression, the never flagging inventiveness can also be found in these 6 quartets 'with 2 violas'. A ravishing 'instrumentation variant' for all violists!

Fiala's works, schooled in Haydn, offer melodic sweetness, clean movement with fine dynamic shading, as may be audibly recreated in our viola quartet, bathed in a 'deeper warm tonal language'.

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First Edition

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Bazzini's 5 quartets, written in classical formal rigor and coupled with the romanticizing 'Italianita', still indulge in virtuoso attitude, with modest technical playing requirements.

First Edition

First Edition

First Edition

First Edition

This 9th quartet deserves the crown: the mixture of dramatic attiude and enchanting melodic violin to the point of sentimentality serves the bel canto in an inimitable way. Predestined for the prelude...

First edition

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The F-major work captivates the listener with a perfectly formed mixture of a stirring movement set in a stylistically confident manner and the opera composer's great art of exploiting cantabile to th...

In Bergamo, his native city, where Donizetti learned to admire the masterpieces of the Viennese classics as a 'violist', it required him to emulate the style of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, which he s...

Edited from the original edition

Edited from the original edition

Edited from the original edition

The Amadeus Verlag is endeavoring to present all eleven of Romberg's quartets, not least in order to give special recognition to works with a virtuoso cello part, also on the concert podiums. Edited f...

Especially this G minor quartet as a prelude to the series of three op. 25 is excellently suited as an introduction to the cello-dominated compositional scheme of the master cellist Romberg. Edited fr...

Edited from the First Edition.