The world premiere recording of Francesco Pasquale Ricci's Six String Quartets Op. VIII performed by Alla Maniera Italiana Ensemble.

The galante repertoire became popular in Italy around 1770: composers such as Pasquale Ricci and Francesco Zappa, who wrote in galante style, were judged by Leopold Mozart as minor lights inside the European music panorama. Yet, their success in the Netherlands was huge and mainly due to their Italian way of understanding music. Inspiration, impulse, enthusiasm and brilliance are those features which arrived to the present thanks to the witness of that epoch, and are here collected by Alla Maniera Italiana Ensemble.