sentences:  All four were awarded the Gold Medal of the "Benemeriti della Scuola, della Cultura e dell'Arte" by the Italian Presidente della Repubblica.The Quartetto Italiano have recorded the complete quartets by Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, Brahms and Webern.They rarely collaborated with external members, but two notable recordings are Mozart's Clarinet Quintet with Antoine-Pierre de Bavier (Decca, early 1950s), and Brahms's Piano Quintet Op.34 with Maurizio Pollini (Deutsche Grammophon, 1979).