Fonè Quartet

The Fonè Quartet trained at the school of Franco Rossi, the Italian Quartet cellist. The quartet later perfected its art with the Borodin Quartet, with which in Italy it often played the Octet by Šostakovic, and with the Tokyo Quartet with which the quartet studied at Yale University and then performed all music by Beethoven and Bartók at the Norfolk Music Festival, where it was the in residence quartet. Initially a classic strings quartet, together with the Florentine pianist Sergio de Simone it now wished to appear as a new quartet with piano, a rare combination and one with a repertoire that is almost exclusively that of occasional ensembles. At the Laudamo Philharmonic Orchestra the new Fonè Quartet presents music of great emotional impact and broad proportions such as the Quartet in E Flat major op. 47 by Robert Schumann, as well as unusual passages such as the youthful tempo of Gustav Mahler’s Quartet and the transcription for violin, viola, violoncello and piano of Beethoven’s Quintet op. 16 printed by the composer himself.

FONE' QUARTET

GUSTAV MAHLER
Quartet in A minor.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Quartet in E Flat major
(original recording of the Quintet op. 16 for wind instruments and piano)

ROBERT SCHUMANN
Quartet E flat major op. 47












violin Paolo Chiavacci
viola Marco Facchini
violoncello Ilaria Maurri
piano Sergio De Simone