Antonio Bazzini, stringquartet 6 mvt 3 Saltarello, Vivacissimo

October 4, 2008 at 12:33 PM

My father has as passive classic music listener a lot of lp's of stringquartets. He wrote on lp's the year when he bought them. For example LP's of the Juilliard String Quartet with Robert Mann, Claus Adam from 1962 and 1963 (my birth year) of Alban Berg/ Anton Webern and Ravel/Debussy and also all Beethoven string quartets. When I was a young kid I listen a lot to this music and some pieces moves you like

Beethoven Harp mvt1 op.74 at the end with the climax of the fast 1th violin at 8.32 min.
or
Beethoven the beginning of opus 18.6 movement 4

with the big contrast between heavy sadness and spring happines. The combination of this 4 instruments has something something magic to express atmospheres you cannot express with an orchestra or other combination of instruments.
Now I have found again a piece which moves me at first ear. It is like the well known and often played piece Ronde de Lutins-easy to find on Youtube-, but I think like for violin/piano for string quartets this is also a suitable encore for string quartets, this SQ6 mvt3 of Antonio Bazzini. It gives the joy and fun of spring and make you think to ring some people to play SQ somewhere. I use a lot of pictures for the fast parts and a few for the slow middle part: