Quartetto Italiano has been played on NTS in shows including Kit Records, featured first on 5 December 2017. Songs played include String Quartet In G Minor, Piano Quintet In F Minor Op.34 (continued) and String Quartet In F.

Biography by Robert Cummings

The Quartetto Italiano is regarded as one of the finest string quartets of the twentieth century. The group generally focused on quartet-only repertory, avoiding performance with guest artists of quintets and other larger compositions. The ensemble's repertory was broad and included the entire quartet outputs of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, and Webern, and selected works of Galuppi, Vivaldi, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Bartók, Shostakovich, Villa-Lobos, Schoenberg,…