Alfano: Complete String Quartets

Darvarova, Elmira;
Mumm, Mary Ann;
Mumm, Craig;
Magill, Samuel

8.579042

The Neapolitan composer Franco Alfano was prolific and highly successful in the field of opera, but he also composed three string quartets over a period framed by the two world wars. No. 1 in D major was written during the First World War and stretches the limits of the quartet medium with its quasi-orchestral vigour, tied together with a habanera rhythm. No. 2 in C major In Three Linked Movements, though smaller in scale, reflects the range of Alfano’s influences, which include Russian and Eastern European music, rustic dances and French impressionism. Work on No. 3 in G minor was started in 1944, a year after the death of his beloved wife, to whom Alfano pays tribute in the haunting first movement. The quartet was completed in 1945 and ends with an ebullient monothematic march finale celebrating Ancient Rome.

Works:

•Alfano: String Quartet No. 1 in D major
•Alfano: String Quartet No. 2 in Tre Tempi Collegati in C major
•Alfano: String Quartet No. 3

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

01-09-2023

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