Il Tetraone
Il Tetraone
“Il Tetraone was born within an ideal of “great quartet” like Accademia Bizantina, marrying its philosophy and closing a perfect circle in the most genuinely chamber music form. What is really striking about this group is the clear adhesion to aesthetic concepts matured through years of study and collaboration, combined with a surprising personality and communicative nature. Qualities, expression and emotion that seduce.” Ottavio Dantone
The
Tetraone was founded in 2011 by members of the Accademia Bizantina;
originally starting as a string quartet with piano, with the aim of
rediscovering one of the most interesting and musically complete
repertoires that the history of music offers.
The Tetraone uses
original instruments, and pays particular attention to the setting,
tuning and temperament of this historical period.
The attention paid
to these aspects, combined with the philological study of the score, the
care of sound and the research of historical timbres, allows the
realisation of new readings and interpretations of a great repertoire.
The
quartet has evolved and grown with the addition of Giovanni Valgimigli,
double bass player of Accademia Bizantina, to rediscover the quintet
repertoire with double bass, whose most famous piece is certainly, "The
Trout" by Franz Schubert, but which promises many more unknown surprises
of great interest and beauty to the general public.
The Tetraone,
since its foundation, has collaborated with Francesco Zanotto, who in
addition to making his keyboard instruments collection available, from
which the most philologically appropriate can be chosen, he also deals
with historical tuning and temperaments.
In 2019, the first CD
entitled "Il Tetraone" was released, recording on original instruments
(the fortepiano is a copy of Conrad Graf’s original instrument from
1819) of the Quartet op.16 by L. V. Beethoven and the Quintet, "The
Trout" by F. Schubert, for which the record label, NovAntiqua Records,
has received great acclaim and flattering reviews. In August 2020, it
was nominated as, “Recording of the month” by the Diapason magazine.
The
ensemble's second recording, the Quartets for fortepiano and strings by
W. A. Mozart KV 478 and KV 493, on original instruments (fortepiano is a
copy of Anton Walter’s from 1792), was released by Spring
2021, again on the NovAntiqua Records record label.
In 2023 our CD Beim Lugwig - Quartets with forte piano by L.v.Beethoven WoO 36 was released. This year, we will record two Quintets with fortepiano by Louis Farrenc: Op. 30 no. 1 in A minor and Op. 31 no. 2 in E major.
Ana Liz Ojeda – violin
Alice Bisanti – viola
Paolo Ballanti – cello
Valeria Montanari – fortepiano
Giovanni Valgimigli – double bass
