The Earliest Recordings of the "Quartet Italiano"

[otterhouse]

Here is some metadata (recording date, locations) to the spotify list of the earliest recordings of the Italian quartet, the Quartetto Italiano. It starts the "the reason" the quartet formed itself, to perform the Claude Debussy quartet. They recorded it for Telefunken in 1946, with Linonello Fonzanti on viola. He was replaced by Piero Faruli in 1947.

Just sample track 07, the slow movement of the D major Boccherini quartet, recorded in 1948. So beautiful...!

http://classicalspotify.blogspot.nl/2017/03/quartetto-italiano-early-recordings.html

Rolf

[Richard Tarleton]

Thank you so much for this. Lovely.

There is a cryptic reference to the quartet's unconventional domestic arrangements in Vikram Seth's novel An Equal Music, but this is the first reference I've seen to that anywhere else.