Quartetto Bazzini - Antonio Bazzini: String Quartets No. 1 [WoO] & No. 3, Op. 76

Antonio Bazzini, violinist and composer, was born in Brescia on 11 March 1818 and died in Milan on 10 February. The works for string quartet performed by Quartetto Bazzini on this recording are No. 1 without an opus number and No. 3 Op. 76. On listening to these two works, we can understand and appreciate Bazzini�s mastery as a composer: the solo parts are skilfully distributed among the string instruments, and we can detect an influence of French and German instrumental music, filtered by his creative genius, which is never predictable or recognisable.