Word: quattro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bonporti: Concerti a Quattro (I Musici Ensemble; Epic). Four of the ten polyphonic concertos, marked Opus n by a recently discovered Italian Jesuit philosopher whose lifelong ambition was not to compose music but to become canon at the Cathedral of Trento. Bonporti (1672-1749), who remained an ordinary priest and died brokenhearted, abandoned Corelli's standard concerto-grosso form, loaded his dialogues between violins, violas and bass with such a personal, rhythmic melody that he became a forerunner of 19th century romanticism...
...shorter works, Hindemith's "Five Pieces for Orchestra," Op. 44 and Scarlatti's "Sonata a Quattro" in d minor, followed the Bach. The fast parts of both these compositions were well handled by the orchestra. Yet, a more expressive and tender approach seemed in order for the slower Hindemith pieces while more majesty could have been suggested in the second movement of the Baroque "Sonata." The disappointment in these passages seemed to be due to an incomplete understanding of the music on Harbison's part. He continued to emphasize rhythmic vigor when the works really required more attention...
...memorial to his father. The Philanthropist was Colonel Larz Anderson '88, Ambassador to Japan, a world traveller who first thought of giving the bridge when vacationing in Rome. A friend wrote later, "I well remember the day he and I stood on the old Bridge of the Quattro Capi, built in memory of some old Roman worthy, and agreed that it was the best of all memorials...
Alessandro Scarlatti: Sonata a Quattro (New Music Quartet; Bartok). A pre-Bach genius (1660-1725) who specialized in operas and cantatas, Scarlatti was one of the first to write a real string quartet. This one, full of surprising glints and glows, is played to perfection by one of the U.S.'s finest ensembles. On the same disk: quartets by Tartini and Boccherini...
...York City Opera resurrected his old (1906) three-acter, I Quattro Rusteghi, never before performed in the U.S. Decked out in an English translation, The Four Ruffians made up in broad mirth anything it lacked in old-school elegance...