Galuppi, Boccherini & Cambini: Quartetti per archi

As part of our Quartetto italiano retrospective, this release features a collection of pieces from Italy. If Galuppi’s Concerto a quattro has still to do with the baroque aesthetics, Boccherini and Cambini, themselves partners for a while in one of the earliest string quartet ever constituted, are much more modern. Boccherini’s quartet La Tiranna, named after a dance from Spain where he spent most of his career, is one of his most famous scores. As for Cambini, one of the most prolific string quartet composers ever (almost 150!), the quartet in G minor’s rendition by the Italiano is the only one existing on record!