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Romanticismo Italiano (SACD)
Stefano Golinelli, Vincenzo Antonio Petrali

Quartetto Altemps

Romanticismo Italiano (SACD)

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Format: SACD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917200607
Catnr: CC 720060
Release date: 05 June 2026
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Challenge Classics
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0608917200607
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CC 720060
Release date
05 June 2026
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Quartetto Altemps’new album Romanticismo Italiano brings to light two extraordinary yet long-overlooked voices of nineteenth-century Italy: Stefano Golinelli and Vincenzo Antonio Petrali. Conceived as a rediscovery of “two treasures of the Italian musical heritage” that fill the apparent void of Italian chamber music of the era, this world premiere recording reveals how two towering keyboard virtuosi— a celebrated pianist and a renowned organist— embraced the string quartet, the supreme chamber genre. In Golinelli’s String Quartet Op. 100 No. 1 in B minor (1854), operatic intensity and harmonic restlessness meet the structural clarity of the Austro-German tradition, evoking echoes of Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schubert while retaining a distinct Italian lyric impulse.

Petrali’s Quartet in G major, presented in its 1884 revised version, reflects a mature and deeply personal synthesis: Italian cantabile warmth intertwined with contrapuntal mastery inspired by Central European models. Rooted in meticulous research of original sources and manuscripts, Quartetto Altemps approaches this repertoire with the spirit of musicians performing music of their own time — forward-looking, vibrant, and alive. The result is more than a historical reconstruction: it is a powerful artistic statement that restores these works to their rightful place, illuminating a forgotten chapter of Romantic Italy with passion, stylistic awareness, and compelling interpretative depth.

Quartetto Altemps’ neues Album Romanticismo Italiano bringt zwei außergewöhnliche, lange überhörte Stimmen des italienischen 19. Jahrhunderts ans Licht: Stefano Golinelli und Vincenzo Antonio Petrali. Als Wiederentdeckung „zweier Schätze des italienischen Musikerbes“ konzipiert, die die scheinbare Leerstelle der italienischen Kammermusik jener Epoche füllen, zeigt diese Weltersteinspielung, wie zwei herausragende Tastenvirtuosen ein gefeierter Pianist und ein renommierter Organist sich dem Streichquartett, der höchsten Gattung der Kammermusik, zuwandten. In Golinellis Streichquartett op. 100 Nr. 1 in h-Moll (1854) begegnen sich opernhafte Intensität und harmonische Unruhe mit der strukturellen Klarheit der austro-deutschen Tradition; dabei klingen Anklänge an Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn und Schubert an, ohne dass der unverwechselbar italienische lyrische Impuls verloren geht.

Petralis Quartett in G-Dur, hier in seiner revidierten Fassung von 1884 vorgestellt, spiegelt eine reife und zutiefst persönliche Synthese wider: italienische kantable Wärme, verflochten mit kontrapunktischer Meisterschaft, die von mitteleuropäischen Vorbildern inspiriert ist. Auf der Grundlage sorgfältiger Forschung an Originalquellen und Handschriften nähert sich das Quartetto Altemps diesem Repertoire mit dem Geist von Musikern, die Musik ihrer eigenen Zeit aufführen zukunftsgewandt, lebendig und voller Ausdruckskraft. Das Ergebnis ist mehr als eine historische Rekonstruktion: Es ist ein kraftvolles künstlerisches Statement, das diese Werke an ihren rechtmäßigen Platz zurückführt und ein vergessenes Kapitel des romantischen Italiens mit Leidenschaft, stilistischem Bewusstsein und überzeugender interpretatorischer Tiefe erhellt.

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Quartetto Altemps

The Altemps Quartet was created from the meeting of four musicians with great experience in the practice of historical performance and a common intent to propose a alternative reading of the great classical and romantic repertoire with an innovative and original vision. Thanks to the approach that in the last decades has revolutionised the conception and interpretation of seventeenth and  eighteenth-century music, the quartet intends to address the repertoire with the spirit of musicians of the time, who performed music which was contemporary to them: with a forward-looking outlook rather than a retrospective one. This work is founded on the comparative study of original sources,  manuscripts and first editions. The wide experience and in-depth expertise that the four musicians have developed within internationally renowned ensembles,...
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The Altemps Quartet was created from the meeting of four musicians with great experience in the practice of historical performance and a common intent to propose a alternative reading of the great classical and romantic repertoire with an innovative and original vision. Thanks to the approach that in the last decades has revolutionised the conception and interpretation of seventeenth and eighteenth-century music, the quartet intends to address the repertoire with the spirit of musicians of the time, who performed music which was contemporary to them: with a forward-looking outlook rather than a retrospective one. This work is founded on the comparative study of original sources, manuscripts and first editions. The wide experience and in-depth expertise that the four musicians have developed within internationally renowned ensembles, such as Il Giardino Armonico, Europa Galante, Kammerorchester Basel, I Barocchisti and Il Suonar Parlante, has led them to undertake this chamber music journey with particular stylistic awareness and depth of interpretation.

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Marco Testori (violoncello)

Angelo Calvo (violin)

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