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

Davidsbündlertänze and the “Ghost Variations”)

combining three elements: the circus

and freshness is at the same time full of generosity

almost as if he were ticking off one genre after another

But an ironic stroke of fate came to his aid

(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)