Romanticismo Italiano [CD]

Quartetto Altemps - Romanticismo Italiano [CD]

Quartetto Altemps'new album Romanticismo Italiano brings to light two extraordinary yet long-overlooked voices of nineteenth-century Italy: Stefano Golinelli and Vincenzo Antonio Petrali. Conceived as a rediscovery of "two treasures of the Italian musical heritage" that fill the apparent void of Italian chamber music of the era, this world premiere recording reveals how two towering keyboard virtuosi- a celebrated pianist and a renowned organist- embraced the string quartet, the supreme chamber genre. In Golinelli's String Quartet Op. 100 No. 1 in B minor (1854), operatic intensity and harmonic restlessness meet the structural clarity of the Austro-German tradition, evoking echoes of Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schubert while retaining a distinct Italian lyric impulse.