Quartetto di Cremona

MUSIC
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2018
5:00 PM

Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$45
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Italian instrumental music sort of fell by the wayside after the Baroque:  the world focused its attention on Italian opera -- and so, for the most part, did Italian audiences.  But much attractive work was written -- how could it not be attractive, given the melodies that seem to spring from the soil in Italy? -- and in this very appealing concert a distinguished Italian string quartet presents a bunch of the very best.  Along with a ringer, Wolf's Italian Serenade, in which that Italian soil inspires a usually rather fraught Austrian to a burst of melodic cheer.  (This concert is sold out, as you might expect in such a tiny venue -- but watch for last-minute cancellations.)

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:   There are a lot of expensive, solid Italian spots on the Upper East Side -- and a lot of expensive, terrible ones.  Caravaggio is one of the better sort:  it's genuinely hard to decide what to order from its attractive menu.  Not cheap -- but this is the Upper East Side.