Il Tetraone is a piano quartet formed in 2011 within Accademia Bizantina.

 

The aim is to combine friendship and the joy of playing together of each musician, deepening one of the most interesting repertoire that the history of music offers.

 

Il Tetraone, naturally, performs on historical instruments, with a particular care to instrument’s fittings, tuning and temperament referred to the historical period.

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Using these means, together with a philological approach to the score, the care of sound, the research of timbre and transparency, the group is able to propose a new lecture and interpretation of this great repertoire.

 

The piano quartet expands and evolves with the addition of Giovanni Valgimigli, contrabass player from Accademia Bizantina, to explore the repertoire of  piano quintet with contrabass, whose most famous masterpiece is certainly “The Trout” by Franz Schubert, but that reserves many other surprises, less well known by the audience, so fully beautiful and interesting.

 

In November 2019 the first CD for Novantiqua Records was released, in which the ensemble recorded the Beethoven Quartet Op. 16 and the Quintet D667 Op. Post. 114 "The Trout" by Schubert.

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Of fundamental importance, since the foundation of the ensemble, is the partnership with Francesco Zanotto Instruments (www.zanottostrumenti.it), which supports the musicians of Il Tetraone with its prestigious collection of keyboard instruments and allows them to combine the right instrument with every historical period.