Carlo Martelli: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 & Terzetto, Prelude and Fugue

The Pavão Quartet has the measure of the contrapuntal intricacy and expressive clarity that is a hallmark of the composer's thinking, and has been accorded detailed if not unduly forward sound...Martelli's... — International Record Review, May 2014 More…

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2013
Catalogue No: DISCA002
Label: Discadia

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Martelli, C: String Quartet No. 1

Pavão Quartet

Martelli, C: String Quartet No. 2

Pavão Quartet

Martelli, C: Terzetto, Prelude and Fugue

Pavão Quartet

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The Pavãos are delighted to have at last recorded some of Carlo Martelli’s original chamber music, since it was a collection of his wonderfully inventive arrangements of ‘The Great American Songbook’ that launched their recording career. Martelli studied with William Lloyd Webber and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music. His Symphony was premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall and was released in 2011.Throughout the 1950s he produced a series of wellcrafted compositions, among which may be numbered the two string quartets and Terzetto for two violins and viola, featured on this disc. Martelli’s String Quartet no.2 has been widely played and critically acclaimed.

Its recorded debut presented here is particularly welcome and should serve to win the work many new admirers.

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May 2014

The Pavão Quartet has the measure of the contrapuntal intricacy and expressive clarity that is a hallmark of the composer's thinking, and has been accorded detailed if not unduly forward sound...Martelli's music may not be a revelation, but it is persuasively argued and superbly written. Martelli's music may not be a revelation, but it is persuasively argued and superbly written.

Carlo Martelli: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 & Terzetto, Prelude and Fugue

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