QUARTETTO ADORNO second concert
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THE STRING QUARTETS OF LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
QUARTETTO ADORNO
CONCERT
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Bonn 1770 – Vienna 1827
STRING QUARTET
n. 8 in E minor op. 59 n. 2 “Razumovsky”
1. Allegro
2. Molto Adagio (mi maggiore)
3. Allegretto
4. Presto
STRING QUARTET
n. 13 in B flat major op. 130
1. Adagio ma non troppo, Allegro
2. Presto
3. Andante con moto ma non troppo. Poco scherzando
4. Alla danza tedesca. Allegro assai
5. Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo
Große Fuge in B flat major op. 133
Overture. Allegro – Meno mosso e moderato – Allegretto – Fuga – Meno mosso e moderato – Allegro molto con brio – Allegro
Interpreters
QUARTETTO ADORNO
EDOARDO ZOSI violin
LIÙ PELLICIARI violin
BENEDETTA BUCCI viola
DANILO SQUITIERI cello
Recorded live
Palazzo Chigi Saracini, 23 April 2021
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This concert concludes the complete performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartets, programmed by the Chigiana Academy in the Micat Vertice Concerts Season on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the great German composer and interpreted by the best young musical talents of today. Tonight’s program completes the descriptive path of the evolution of Beethoven’s compositional style in the genre of the string quartet, a genre that the Bonn composer visits and studies several times in three different phases of his production. The second of the quartets op.59, linked to the name of Count Andrej Razumovskij, belongs to the works of the triumphal, heroic style, composed after 1802 and the author’s declaration of wanting to follow a “new path”, a “completely new way” . The program concludes with the transfiguration of the chamber genre given by the latest compositions for string quartet which include opera 130 and opera 133, Die große Fuge – the great Fugue.
The Adorno Quartet made itself known internationally by winning the Third Prize (First not awarded), the Audience Award and the Special Prize for the best performance of the contemporary piece by Silvia Colasanti in the 2017 edition of the Paolo Borciani International Award Competition. In the thirty-year history of the Competition, no Italian quartet had obtained such an important recognition. Founded in 2015 by Edoardo Zosi, Liù Pelliciari, Benedetta Bucci and Danilo Squitieri, they studied at the Fiesole Music School. Each member attended the advanced-level courses at the Chigiana Summer Academy. The name of the Quartet is a tribute to the philosopher Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno who, in an era of musical and social decline, identified chamber music as a key of salvation to perpetuate a true human relationship. The Adorno Quartet has held concerts for important Italian and foreign music halls and has collaborated with great artists such as: P. Badura-Skoda, B. Canino, A. Carbonare, S. Gramaglia, F. Meloni, P. Meyer, G. Sollima.
The project “Roll Over Beethoven” is supported by the MiC and SIAE, within the program “Per Chi Crea”
