Brilliant Classics
Fano: String Quartet & Piano Quintet
$14.99
Details
- Composer
- Guido Alberto Fano
- Artist
- Ensemble Mark Rothko, Massimiliano Ferrati, Andrea Ferrati
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Brilliant Classics
- Released
- Jul 24, 2026
- Catalog #
- BRI97757
- UPC
- 5063758977579
About
A luscious pair of late-Romantic chamber works by a little-known pupil of Giuseppe Martucci, in new recordings by an Italian ensemble with a notable track record of success in reviving such rarities. Born in 1875, Guido Alberto Fano emulated the model of his teacher Martucci in pursuing a multi-faceted career as composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. At the age of 30 he became director of the conservatoire in Parma before transferring, in 1916, to the Sicilian city of Palermo. A year later he wrote this powerful and turbulent Piano Quintet, which sets out in a broad, contented and Brahmsian vein of expression before venturing into more troubled and chromatically contemporary harmonies, to which a finale brings resolution via a noble chorale theme. At the Quintet's climax, this theme soars over the texture on a solo trumpet, in a stroke of instrumental imagination which anticipates Honegger's Second Symphony by two decades - and indeed the 45-minute Quintet has the dimensions of a 'veiled symphony' in the manner of Brahms's early chamber works and sonatas. Wistful, major-minor Brahmsian motifs and harmonies still permeate the String Quartet which Fano composed in 1941 - another distinctively 'wartime' work - but whether through age or experience they are suffused with a late-style radiance which brings the style of the Quartet closer to Richard Strauss and Debussy. The Ensemble Mark Rothko is a flexible line-up of Italian musicians who specialising in reviving forgotten chamber works of the late 19th and early 20th century. Their discography includes albums dedicated to Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Karl Weigl, and this collection of Guido Alberto Fano marks their debut on Brilliant Classics.
Tracklist 9 tracks
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1 I. Allegro molto moderato 12:35
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Allegro molto moderato
- Duration
- 12:35
- Composer
- Guido Alberto Fano
- Performer
- Andrea Ferrati, Massimiliano Ferrati
- Ensemble
- Mark Rothko Ensemble
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2 II. Scherzo: Vivacissimo 10:15
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Scherzo: Vivacissimo
- Duration
- 10:15
- Composer
- Guido Alberto Fano
- Performer
- Andrea Ferrati, Massimiliano Ferrati
- Ensemble
- Mark Rothko Ensemble
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3 III. Adagio, con intimo e profondo sentimento 07:16
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Adagio, con intimo e profondo sentimento
- Duration
- 07:16
- Composer
- Guido Alberto Fano
- Performer
- Andrea Ferrati, Massimiliano Ferrati
- Ensemble
- Mark Rothko Ensemble
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4 IV. Finale: Allegro appassionato 08:55
- Track
- 4
- Title
- IV. Finale: Allegro appassionato
- Duration
- 08:55
- Composer
- Guido Alberto Fano
- Performer
- Andrea Ferrati, Massimiliano Ferrati
- Ensemble
- Mark Rothko Ensemble
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5 I. Allegro moderato 07:21
- Track
- 5
- Title
- I. Allegro moderato
- Duration
- 07:21
- Composer
- Guido Alberto Fano
- Ensemble
- Mark Rothko Ensemble
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6 II. Presto, non troppo 04:33
- Track
- 6
- Title
- II. Presto, non troppo
- Duration
- 04:33
- Composer
- Guido Alberto Fano
- Ensemble
- Mark Rothko Ensemble
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7 III. Andante, con intimo e profondo sentimento 02:06
- Track
- 7
- Title
- III. Andante, con intimo e profondo sentimento
- Duration
- 02:06
- Composer
- Guido Alberto Fano
- Ensemble
- Mark Rothko Ensemble
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8 IV. Elevazione 06:52
- Track
- 8
- Title
- IV. Elevazione
- Duration
- 06:52
- Composer
- Guido Alberto Fano
- Ensemble
- Mark Rothko Ensemble
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9 V. Allegro vivace 02:51
- Track
- 9
- Title
- V. Allegro vivace
- Duration
- 02:51
- Composer
- Guido Alberto Fano
- Ensemble
- Mark Rothko Ensemble