(1997) Three Italian String Quartets Luciano Berio Davidsbündlertänze and the “Ghost Variations”)

Davidsbündlertänze and the “Ghost Variations”)

But an ironic stroke of fate came to his aid

Clemens Hagen

and freshness is at the same time full of generosity

Robert De Visée and Simone Molinaro

(1997) Three Italian String Quartets Luciano Berio Davidsbündlertänze and the “Ghost Variations”)The three works on this recording are characteristic of the rebirth of the string quartet in Italy after an extended hiatus following the quartets by Boccherini and Cherubini. The quartets by Respighi, Rota and Malipiero represent the continuation of Verdis individual forays into this genre and in a sense the development of the string quartet in Italy in the first half of this century. The Nuovo Quartetto Italiano (formerly Giovane Quartetto Italiano)