简介：
Composer: Ludwid van Beethoven
Orchestra: Quartetto Italiano
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1 SACD-R
Format: ISO
Bit Depth: 64(2.8 MHz/1 Bit)
Number of channels: 5.0, 2.0
Label: PentaTone
Size: 2.84 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Server: baiduyun
The Quartetto Italiano was a string quartet founded in Reggio Emilia in 1945. They made their debut in 1945 in Carpi when all 4 players were still in their early 20's. They were originally named Nuovo Quartetto Italiano before dropping the "Nuovo" tag in 1951. They are particularly noted for their recording of the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartets, made between 1967 & 1975. The quartet disbanded in 1980.
The secretary & historian of the Quartet was Guido Alberto Borciani (Reggio Emilia, 20 October 1920 - 4 April 2008), mechanical engineer & talented pianist, Paolo's brother & founder in 1987 of the Premio Paolo Borciani.
PENTATONE has licensed (from the Decca Music Group) the quad recordings which were made in the 70s by Philips Classics. The quadro system was not successful because of flaws in the playback equipment. However today's SA-CD equipment is capable of reproducing these recordings the way they were originally intended. Polyhymnia has remastered these recordings for release on SACD. This series is called 'RQR'.
AllMusic:
Philips' early '70s stereo recordings of the Quartetto Italiano playing Beethoven's string quartets were considered classics in their day both in terms of performance & sound. The Italiano's performances were judged poised but passionate, opulent in sonority but objective in interpretation, & Philips' sound was deemed wholly present but ineffably transparent with an ideal balance between instruments & an uncanny sense of place & time. In this 2008 PentaTone reissue of the Italiano's F major Quartet Op. 59/1 & B flat major Quartet Op. 18/6, the performances, naturally, remain unchanged, but the sound, miraculously, is even better. Though originally recorded in quad, these performances have heretofore only been issued in 2ch. Here, however, the original quad sound is released for the 1st time & the results are little less than astonishing. Before, the sound was transparent with an uncanny sense of place & time; now the sound is essentially translucent with the listener placed right in the middle of the Italians. One can only hope that PentaTone will release more of Philips' Quartetto Italiano recordings.
HDAudio has lengthy reviews here:
MWC says, a snippet from it:
The only possible controversy in the Italian's peerless 1st Rasumovsky lies in their broad, majestic Adagio. Some might feel it too static, even chill, although I find it it remarkable. In part this is because the players don't exaggerate the dynamic contrasts the way they do in the finale of Op18/6. For me, the Italiano project the mood of almost catatonic anguish which lies at the elusive core of this work. It is their mastery of both musical structure & sustained, intense legato playing which achieves this.
The recording quality & SACD transfer are exemplary. The Philips engineers avoided the slight treble brightness that DGG accorded the Amadeus Quartet's Beethoven & Haydn, and the tubby bottom-heaviness of the Vegh Quartet's sound on CD. The quartet is recorded slightly further back than most digital recordings of chamber music. This means that the violin's highest (E) string has a volume which sounds more in proportion to the rest, & is more faithful to the timbre one hears in the concert hall. Many digital recordings overemphasise both high violin sounds & the lowest registers of the cello, making the quartet sound jumbo sized, with a double bass moonlighting for the cello. The Philips recording is perfect in timbre & volume, with no suggestion of analogue tape hiss at lifelike listening levels.
曲目：
Quartetto Italiano
Ludwid van Beethoven:
String Quartet in F, Op. 59, No. 1
01. Allegro
02. Allegretto vivace a sempre scherzando
03. Adagio molto e mesto
04. Thème russe (Allegro)
String Quartet in B flat, Op. 18, No. 6
05. Allegro con brio
06. Adagio ma non troppo
07. Scherzo (Allegro)
08. La Malinconia
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