MANFREDINI: Complete String Quartets [CD de audio] Quartetto Delfico and Manfredini

For Manfredini, instrumental music was a form of language, somewhat similar to painting and poetry, and its main goal was to please and touch the heart. This beautiful collection shows the extent to which his work reflected his theoretical and aesthetic ideals. Each of the string quartets exhibits a consummate balance between instruments, between melody and harmony, and between lyricism and chiaroscuro effects. Here was a composer who knew his art thoroughly, and who, furthermore, successfully defended it in disputes with other contemporary music theorists. The listener will be transported by the emotional dialogues found in the best pieces of this Italian master. The Quartetto Delfico is a group of four orchestral musicians who came together to specialize in the Italian string quartet repertoire. Their practice on original instruments gives them a unique identity, and they have played at a number of international festivals, as well as on BBC Radio 3.