Saturday, May 16th 2020, at 5 pm – Live streaming on Fondazione Giorgio Cini’s YouTube channel
#2 THE ROMANTICISM - OVERWHELMED BY THE STURM UND DRANG
Second live streaming, broadcast in Italian, with IL QUARTETTO, QUESTO SCONOSCIUTO – Brief history of the string quartet curated by Simone Gramaglia, violist of Quartetto di Cremona and artistic director of Le Dimore del Quartetto and Archipelago, and Chiara Lijoi
TOPIC
Schubert, Schumann, Brahms: the Romantic spirit conquers chamber music and elevates the string quartet to pure music
SPECIAL GUEST
Cristiano Gualco, first violin of Quartetto di Cremona
PLAYLIST OF LISTENINGS
Listen to the episode’s playlist on Spotify
Here a list of String Quartets to discover different interpretations of this repertoire:
SCHUBERT | Artemis Quartet, Belcea Quartet, Quartetto di Cremona, Quartetto Italiano
MENDELSSOHN | Cherubini Quartet, Quatuor Arod
SCHUMANN | Julliard Quartet, Schumann Quartet
BRAHMS | Borodin Quartet, Arcanto Quartet, Amadeus Quartet
PLAYLIST OF READINGS
• Enzo Porta, Il violino nella storia, EDT
• AAVV, The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet, Cambridge University Press
• Otto Erich Deutsch, Schubert: L’amico e il poeta nelle testimonianze dei suoi contemporanei, EDT
• Robert Schumann-Clara Wieck, Casa Schumann. Diari 1841-1844, EDT
• Lisa Grodin, Baroque, Classical and Modern Violin Bows (watch it here)
IL QUARTETTO, QUESTO SCONOSCIUTO
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE STRING QUARTET
First online format in live streaming signed by Le Dimore del Quartetto and hosted by Fondazione Giorgio Cini.
Three episodes about the string quartet world, discovering composers and repertoire through stories and anecdotes. To enrich the exchange, each episode will see the presence of a guest from a different background: a scholar, a musician, a philosopher.
