Carlo Martelli

Tchaikovsky wrote a great deal of music for solo piano, all of it of the salon variety. This charming example of this side of the great composer's art is here expertly transcribed for the string quartet by Carlo Martelli.

Tchaikovsky wrote a great deal of music for solo piano, all of it of the salon variety. This charming example of this side of the great composer's art is here expertly transcribed for the string quartet by Carlo Martelli.

This superlatively skilful adaptation by Carlo Martelli of Tchaikovsky's Christmas masterpiece omits only one movement, the Arab Dance, from the original suite.

This superlatively skilful adaptation by Carlo Martelli of Tchaikovsky's Christmas masterpiece omits only one movement, the Arab Dance, from the original suite.

Arranged here for string quartet by Carlo Martelli, this famous 5/4 movement from the Pathétique Symphony turned out to be its composers swan song.

Arranged here for string quartet by Carlo Martelli, this famous 5/4 movement from the Pathétique Symphony turned out to be its composers swan song.

This medley, arranged by Carlo Martelli from Tchaikovsky's penultimate opera, is a collage containing most of the Mozartian pastiche found in the piece and some of the more overtly 'Russian' numbers.

This medley, arranged by Carlo Martelli from Tchaikovsky's penultimate opera, is a collage containing most of the Mozartian pastiche found in the piece and some of the more overtly 'Russian' numbers.

Tchaikovsky's piano music is of the drawing-room order and always charmingly written - this Romance is typical, and is ideal for transference to the string quartet as is here arranged by Carlo Martelli.

Tchaikovsky's piano music is of the drawing-room order and always charmingly written - this Romance is typical, and is ideal for transference to the string quartet as is here arranged by Carlo Martelli.

In this version of Tchaikovsky's early romantic masterpiece the arranger Carlo Martelli has considerably curtailed the original in length.

In this version of Tchaikovsky's early romantic masterpiece the arranger Carlo Martelli has considerably curtailed the original in length.

Arranged for string quartet by Carlo Martelli, this is the most well known of all Tchaikovsky's many drawing-room pieces for piano, using a title invented and made popular by Mendelssohn more than forty years earlier.

Arranged for string quartet by Carlo Martelli, this is the most well known of all Tchaikovsky's many drawing-room pieces for piano, using a title invented and made popular by Mendelssohn more than forty years earlier.

Tchaikovsky's lyrical genius and his extraordinarily subtle gift for portraying character is at its peak in this, his most well known, opera. This waltz, which opens the second act, is one of Tchaikovsky's finest, brilliantly transcribed here for the four strings by Carlo Martelli.