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String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 18, No. 6 - Quartetto di Cremona
Puccini on A.Stradivari's Quartetto Paganini
La GOG intervista il Quartetto di Cremona
Italiaanse serenade - Hugo Wolf | Podium Witteman
Viola Andrea Amati 1574 and violin Nicola Amati 1656
1 Beethoven: Quartetto Op.18 #6/ Allegro Con Brio
2 Beethoven: Quartetto Op.18 #6/Adagio Ma Non Troppo
3 Beethoven: Quartetto Op.18 #6/ Scherzo. Allegro
4 Beethoven: Quartetto Op.18 #6/ La Malinconia
5 Beethoven: Quartetto Fm Op.95/Allegro Con Brio
6 Beethoven:Quartetto FmOp.95/Allegretto Ma Non Trop
7 Beethoven: Quartetto Fm Op.95/Allegro Assai Vivace
8 Beethoven: Quartetto Fm Op.95/ Larghetto
9 Beethoven:Quartetto FMaj.Op.135/ Allegretto
10 Beethoven:Quartetto FMaj.Op.135/ Vivace
11 Beethoven:Quartetto FMaj.Op.135/ Lento Assai E
12 Beethoven:Quartetto FMaj.Op.135/Grave, Ma Non Trop
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During the past ten years the Quartetto di Cremona has matured into a string quartet of international renown, combining the Italian culture of string playing with an awareness of historical performance practice. The first volume of their recording series of the Complete Beethoven String Quartets comprises three distinctive works from Beethoven's early, middle and late periods. With the three works contained in Volume 1, the Quartetto di Cremona covers the most important periods of Beethoven's quartet oeuvre. The final of the six Op. 18 Quartets features a mysteriously programmatic dimension in its last movement, "La Malinconia", whereas Op. 95 from Beethoven's middle period is both highly compact yet dramatically gripping. The disc closes with Beethoven's final Quartet, Op. 135, completed in Vienna one year before his death: it differs from his less easily approachable late works in taking on a conciliatory stance.

  • Quartetto di Cremona set for Simms Center for the Performing Arts / Albuquerque Journal
    Posted At: February 25, 2024 12:00 AM
    Since its formation in 2000, the Quartetto di Cremona has established a reputation as one of the most exciting chamber ensembles on the international stage. Regularly invited to perform in major music festivals and halls in Europe, North and South America, and Far East, they garner universal acclaim for their high level of interpretive artistry.Highlights of recent and upcoming seasons are the performances ...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona set for the Vancouver Playhouse / stir
    Posted At: October 19, 2022 12:00 AM
    Since its formation in 2000, the Quartetto di Cremona has established a reputation as one of the most exciting chamber ensembles on the international stage. Regularly invited to perform in major music festivals in Europe, North and South America, and Far East, they garner universal acclaim for their high level of interpretive artistry.BBT Fellowship prize winner in 2005, the ensemble received also the “Fran...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona makes first Syracuse appearance / syracuse.com
    Posted At: October 18, 2022 12:00 AM
    Since its formation in 2000, the Quartetto di Cremona has established a reputation as one of the most exciting chamber ensembles on the international stage. Regularly invited to perform in major music festivals in Europe, North and South America, and Far East, they garner universal acclaim for their high level of interpretive artistry.BBT Fellowship prize winner in 2005, the ensemble received also the “Fran...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona opens 'Friends of Chamber Music' season this month / stir
    Posted At: September 29, 2022 12:00 AM
    Since its formation in 2000, the Quartetto di Cremona has established a reputation as one of the most exciting chamber ensembles on the international stage. Regularly invited to perform in major music festivals in Europe, North and South America, and Far East, they garner universal acclaim for their high level of interpretive artistry.BBT Fellowship prize winner in 2005, the ensemble received also the “Fran...
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  • Santa Fe Pro Musica presents Quartetto Di Cremona / Los Alamos Daily Post
    Posted At: September 28, 2022 12:00 AM
    Santa Fe Pro Musica presents Quartetto Di Cremona to perform Oct. 23, to kick off its String Works Series. Courtesy/Santa Fe Pro MusicaLos Alamos Daily Post's Carol A. Clark writes….Santa Fe Pro Musica begins its String Works Series at 3 p.m. Oct. 23 at St. Francis Auditorium (107 W. Palace Ave. in Santa Fe) with the Quartetto Di Cremona. The program includes works by Boccherini, Verdi, Puccini and Respighi...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona wins 'Franco Buitoni Award' / theStrad
    Posted At: March 18, 2019 12:00 AM

    Quartetto di Cremona (Cristiano Gualco, Simone Gramaglia, Paolo Andreoli and Giovanni Scaglione) has won the Franco Buitoni Award 2019, receiving £25,000 and a specially commissioned glass sculpture, entitled Suono, made by Venice-based artist Ritsue Mishima. The presentation will take place on 16th April when the quartet is in Milan for a performance at Società del Quartetto. The ...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona returns to Western Mass., two years after their superb VCC debut / WWLP
    Posted At: March 30, 2018 12:00 AM

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} Since its formation in 2000, the Quartetto di Cremona has established a reputation as one of the most exciting chamber ensembles on the international stage. Regularly invited to perform at the most important festivals and concert seasons across Europe, South America, the United States and the Far East, the Quartet ha...
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  • Sol Gabetta and Cremona Quartet win ICMA Awards / the Strad
    Posted At: January 18, 2018 12:00 AM

    Sol Gabetta's recording of the Elgar and Martinů cello concertos and the final two instalments in the Cremona Quartet's complete Beethoven series have picked up awards in the concerto and chamber music categories respectively of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA). Now in their eighth edition, the ICMAs jury of 17 editors of European classical music magazines and websites selects...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona play first concert with newly loaned - four instruments by Stradivari
    Posted At: September 29, 2017 12:00 AM

    On September 27th, the Quartetto di Cremona took on the loan of the "Paganini Quartet", four instruments by Stradivari. They are succeeding the Hagen and Tokyo Quartets who played the instruments, known to be treasured by Paganini, in recent years, and the Paganini and Cleveland Quartets. Since 1994, the complete set of instruments is in possession of the Nippon Music Foundation which loans them to selec...
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  • Quartetto Di Cremona receives the ECHO KLASSIK Award for Chamber Music Recording (19th Century Music | String Player)
    Posted At: July 27, 2017 12:00 AM

    Quartetto Di Cremona receives the ECHO KLASSIK Award for Chamber Music Recording (19th Century Music | String Player). The ECHO KLASSIK trophies will be handed out on Sunday, 29 October 2017 during a gala event in the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall in Hamburg. All of the artists receiving an ECHO KLASSIK this year have made outstanding contributions to Classical Music in the 2016/17 music year. Their ...
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  • The Portico of Ards in Portaferry presents - Quartetto di Cremona / The Irish News
    Posted At: February 23, 2017 12:00 AM

    The Portico of Ards in Portaferry will be hosting a show by the internationally acclaimed Cremona Quartet this weekend as part of a Moving On Music tour supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland's NI Music Touring Programme. The Italian Quartetto di Cremona will perform a programme of Beethoven, Puccini and Mozart on Saturday February 25 at 7.30pm. The quartet's list of accolades includes...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona plays for packed Nassau Music Society audience / bahamasweekly.com review
    Posted At: February 2, 2017 12:00 AM

    The Nassau Music Society brought in the new year with a stunning performance of classical music from world-class artists, who flew in to participate in a two-day event. Ambra Albek and the Quartetto Di Cremona performed for a packed audience at St. Paul's Anglican Church Hall, Lyford Cay on Sunday, January 22, where they received a standing ovation. They entertained a smaller crowd at St. Andrew'...
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  • 'It's better in the Bahamas' with Quartetto di Cremona
    Posted At: January 14, 2017 12:00 AM

    Nassau, Bahamas - The Nassau Music Society is thrilled to bring to Bahamian audiences the wondrous sound of the Quartetto di Cremona string quartet of Italy along with the amazing viola of Ambra Albek in 2 exciting performances!  It's 5 world-class strings players all on the same stage on Saturday 21st January at 7:30 pm at the St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church on Princes Street and on Sunday 22nd Ja...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona set to release: Beethoven SQ, Vol V1 / Herald Scotland
    Posted At: July 29, 2016 12:00 AM

    With two great performances in their established pattern of coupling one early and one late quartet, the Quartetto di Cremona's magnificent survey of Beethoven's complete String Quartets moves securely and unquestionably into mastery. The lightness and deftness (always with power in its drive) of their fantastic interpretation of the fifth of the opus 18 quartets represents yet another call for t...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona's Simone Gramaglia in Houston Public Media's - Classical Classroom
    Posted At: April 26, 2016 12:00 AM

    We could just as easily have called this episode, Growing Up Beethoven, or Build-A-Beethoven, or Beethoven: From Boy to Boss, but "actualization" is more accurate. As violist Simone Gramaglia of Quartetto di Cremona explains, like any artist we study in hindsight, Beethoven's creative development has distinct, identifiable periods. Unlike other artists, as he evolved, Beethoven moved increasingly away fr...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona debuts San Francisco Performances with Italian composers & Beethoven / examiner.com
    Posted At: April 17, 2016 12:00 AM

    Last night in Herbst Theatre, San Francisco Performances presented the San Francisco debut of Quartetto di Cremona. The name refers less to the city famous for hosting some of the greatest violin makers in music history and more for being the ensemble's place of origin. The group was founded in 2000 by violinists Cristiano Gualco and Paolo Andreoli, violist Simone Gramaglia, and cellist Giovanni Scaglion...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona Violist Simone Gramaglia speaks with WWNO about Beethoven
    Posted At: April 8, 2016 12:00 AM

    Quartetto di Cremona has been performing Beethoven's string quartet repertoire regularly since 2014, when they performed the complete Beethoven quartet cycle in Milan. Riding the heels of that concert success, they went into the studio to record all of Beethoven's quartets. The fifth volume of the recordings is out now on the German recording label Audite.de, and it includes a work which is not in the st...
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  • San Francisco Performances concludes Chamber Series with Quartetto di Cremona
    Posted At: April 6, 2016 12:00 AM

    This month San Francisco Performances (SFP) will conclude its 2015–2016 Chamber Series by featuring the San Francisco debut of the Italian Quartetto di Cremona. The members are violinists Cristiano Gualco and Paolo Andreoli, violist Simone Gramaglia, and cellist Giovanni Scaglione; and, as often seems to be the case with recently-formed chamber ensembles, they organized themselves as a quartet in 2...
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  • QdC's Simone Gramaglia speaks with KHFM: Albuquerque about new Beethoven String Quartets
    Posted At: March 29, 2016 12:00 AM

    Audite's fifth volume of the Complete Beethoven String Quartets presents not only the Op. 132 String Quartet but also Beethoven's only original String Quintet. Lawrence Dutton, the violist of the Emerson String Quartet, joins the Quartetto di Cremona. Violist Simone Gramaglia spoke to KHFM: Albuquerque - Brent Stevens from Bogliasco, Italy… while his wife was making dinner....
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  • QdC violist Simone Gramalia speaks with WGTE: Toledo about new Beethoven String Quartets recording
    Posted At: March 28, 2016 12:00 AM

    Internationally renowned for their "extremely mature and lyrical sound" (Strad), the Quartetto di Cremona ( Cristiano Gualco   violin, Paolo Andreoli   violin, Simone Gramaglia   viola, Giovanni Scaglione   cello )  now graces the stages of the most prestigious venues. Their focus and intensity brings life to music from the "tight blend and immaculate voicing" of their ...
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  • Quartetto Di Cremona interviews with WBAA Radio about new Beethoven Vol V
    Posted At: March 23, 2016 12:00 AM

    The fifth volume of the Complete Beethoven String Quartets from Quartetto di Cremona features the String Quartet No. 15, Opus 132 and the only original String Quintet, Opus 29 by the Bonn master. Lawrence Dutton, the violist of the Emerson String Quartet, joins the group for this new release. John Clare had a chance to talk with the quartet's violist Simone Gramaglia about the new cd, adding a guest ...
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  • Quartetto Di Cremona Releases Fifth Album In Beethoven Series / WABE Radio
    Posted At: March 23, 2016 12:00 AM

    From the streets of Milan to festivals in South America, the Quartetto di Cremona plays with the romanticism of Italian music but is also dedicated to preserving its original form and structure, a truly German-Austrian influence. Playing a wide variety of repertoire, from the early works of Haydn to contemporary music, the quartet is now in the midst of Beethoven. They just released volume five of their ...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona Violist - Simone Gramaglia discusses new Beethoven: Complete SQ Vol 5 with Classical Radio
    Posted At: March 9, 2016 12:00 AM

    Audite's fifth volume of the Complete Beethoven String Quartets presents not only the Op. 132 String Quartet but also Beethoven's only original String Quintet. Lawrence Dutton, the violist of the Emerson String Quartet, joins the Quartetto di Cremona ( Cristiano Gualco, violin, Paolo Andreoli, violin, Simone Gramaglia ,viola, Giovanni Scaglione, cello ) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart left s...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona's Early Webern on KUAF Radio
    Posted At: March 2, 2016 12:00 AM

    Italian string quartet Quartetto di Cremona flew to Tulsa, where they embarked on a U.S. road tour. Lucky for us, they stopped along the way to perform Webern inside our very own Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. This lush romantic piece from a 16-year-old who would later prefer writing in the dense 12-tone structure was one of the first pieces the quartet ever played together. Hear that, as well as ...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona - Beethoven: Complete SQ Vol 5 / WFMT: Featured Pick
    Posted At: February 14, 2016 12:00 AM

    In their fifth volume of Beethoven's complete chamber music for strings, Quartetto di Cremona present a late work that stands apart from other quartets of the period – Op 132 in A minor. By that time, Beethoven had developed such a distinctive language that the label of Early Romanticism no longer applies. To complete the album, the Cremona Quartet is joined by violist Lawrence Dutton of the Emerso...
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  • BBC Music calls QdiC's new 'Beethoven String Quartets' - Most exciting
    Posted At: February 8, 2016 12:00 AM

    Quartetto di Cremona's fifth volume on Audite of the Complete Beethoven String Quartets presents not only the Op. 132 String Quartet but also Beethoven's only original String Quintet. Lawrence Dutton, the violist of the Emerson String Quartet, joining the Quartetto di Cremona. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart left six string quintets to the music world, Louis Spohr's work catalogue contai...
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  • QdC w Lawrence Dutton - Beethoven Complete String Quartets Vol V / KDFC: Download Of the Week
    Posted At: January 27, 2016 12:00 AM

    Each week KDFC: San Franciso members can download a free mp3 from some of the biggest releases in the world of Classical music, only at KDFC.com. Audite's fifth volume of the Complete Beethoven String Quartets presents not only the Op. 132 String Quartet but also Beethoven's only original String Quintet. Lawrence Dutton, the violist of the Emerson String Quartet, joins the Quartetto di Cremona. ...
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  • Cremona in a car
    Posted At: November 11, 2015 12:00 AM

    Radio Promotion is best when it's local, so don't fly, drive In routing two of Quartetto di Cremona's recent US performances from Tulsa to Deerfield Mass., we convinced the guys not to fly, but drive. Why? Flying no doubt is easier but since radio is local, (Cristiano Gualco - violin, Paolo Andreoli - violin, Simone Gramaglia - viola, Giovanni ...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona stops by WDPR: Dayton for 'ArtsFocus'
    Posted At: October 23, 2015 12:00 AM

    Internationally known for their "mature and lyrical sound" (Strad), the Quartetto di Cremona ( Cristiano Gualco - violin, Paolo Andreoli - violin, Simone Gramaglia - viola, Giovanni Scaglione - cello ) graces not only the stages of the most prestigious venues, but now some of the best Classical radio stations around the US. Bookended by performances in Tulsa OK and Western Massachusetts, the guys piled i...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona stops by WGTE: Toledo for interview and performance
    Posted At: October 21, 2015 12:00 AM

    The internationally acclaimed Quartetto di Cremona joins Brad Cresswell in the WGTE - Toledo Studios for conversation and performance. Music from the segment includes - Anton Webern's Langsamer Satz and Wolfgang Mozart's String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465, "Dissonance" (1rst movement, excerpt) On the recording front, Audite's fifth volume of the Complete Beethov...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona stops by WCLV: Cleveland for interview and performance
    Posted At: October 9, 2015 12:00 AM

    Internationally renowned for their "extremely mature and lyrical sound" (Strad), the Quartetto di Cremona ( Cristiano Gualco, violin, Paolo Andreoli, violin, Simone Gramaglia, viola, Giovanni Scaglione, cello ) now graces the stages of the most prestigious venues. Their focus and intensity brings life to music from the "tight blend and immaculate voicing" of their Brahms to the "sleek and elegant" d...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona, start U.S. tour in Tulsa / KJRH-2
    Posted At: October 6, 2015 12:00 AM

    Quartetto di Cremona, started their U.S. tour in Tulsa this weekend. This was the second time Chamber Music Tulsa invited the group of musicians to play at the Performing Arts Center (PAC). Violist Simone Gramaglia described the city to a first love, referring to how special it is for them to be back. They debuted in the U.S. a few years ago at the PAC. They are considered one of the best ...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona plays Chamber Music Tulsa / Tulsa World
    Posted At: October 4, 2015 12:00 AM

    The Quartetto di Cremona, which made its exuberant Tulsa debut in 2013, returns to perform under the auspices of Chamber Music Tulsa. The quartet, which takes its name from the Italian city where it first came together, and which also is the hometown of the legendary violin maker Antonio Stradivari, has been described as making music that is as "sleek and elegant as an Armani suit." For its Chamb...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona play Chamber Music Tulsa / Tulsa News On 6
    Posted At: October 2, 2015 12:00 AM

    In their fifth volume of the Complete Beethoven Chamber Music for Strings, the Quartetto di Cremona – currently Italy's most exciting string quartet – present an enraptured late work, the Quartet Op. 132 with the great Adagio "thanksgiving", alongside Beethoven's only String Quintet, Op. 29, this together with Lawrence Dutton, violist of the Emerson String Quartet. In conjun...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona set for San Francisco Chamber Series: April 2016 / examiner.com
    Posted At: September 18, 2015 12:00 AM

    April 15 2016 is the San Francisco debut of the Italian Quartetto di Cremona, which will also be the final concert in this season's SFP Chamber Series. The members of Quartetto di Cremona are violinists Cristiano Gualco and Paolo Andreoli, violist Simone Gramaglia, and cellist Giovanni Scaglione. Their SFP program will feature two major Italian composers, Luigi Boccherini and Ottorino Respighi; so it...
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  • Quartetto di Cremona plays Harrogate's Wesley Chapel / Harrogate Informer
    Posted At: July 13, 2015 12:00 AM

    For those who have never seen a great string quartet live and up close… you must: it's a truly stunning experience and non-more so than the recital given last Thursday 9th July at Wesley Chapel by the Quartetto di Cremona. They played with energy and consummate mastery of every musical detail; immaculately phrased bel canto lines effortlessly interwoven to transport a captivated audience on a jour...
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