Albini: String Quartets

Featuring

Eleonora Matsuno
Jamiang Santi
Francesca Turcato
Cosimo Carovani
Quartetto Indaco
Giovanni Albini

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Composer Biography

Giovanni Albini, born in 1982, has nine string quartets composed between 2003 and 2018, which serve as a record of his compositional activity.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Giovanni Albini approaches composition with abstract musical materials in a mathematical-geometrical way, using rigid schemes or numeric devices to magnify the personal and subjective nature of his musical world.

Compositional Technique

Albini's String Quartet No.8, subtitled 'Il Principe' (The Prince), is dedicated to the Renaissance master Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa and is based on the first five bars of Gesualdo's madrigal 'Moro, lasso, al mio duolo'.

Composer Biography

Giovanni Albini has a diverse academic background, having studied Composition at several conservatories, Mathematics at the University of Pavia, and Classical Guitar at the Conservatory 'Franco Vittadini' of Pavia.

Compositional Technique

Albini frequently uses palindromic structures in his quartets, from a full palindromic structure in the second movement of String Quartet No.1 to the entire String Quartet No.6 and No.9.

Performer Biography

Quartetto Indaco, the ensemble performing on this album, was formed in 2007 at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole and has received numerous awards in music competitions.