The String Quartet in E minor by Ethel Smyth, one of the most innovative and original figures in English music, has a masterful coherence and consistency. With eloquent writing for the viola in...
Elgar / Delius / Menuhin / Boult / Davies Menuhin Plays Elgar & Delius CD1. VN Con in B, Op.61: I. Allegro 2. VN Con in B, Op.61: II. Andante 3. VN Con in B, Op.61: III. Allegro Molto 4. VN Con...
This keenly anticipated album from Sinfonia of London and John Wilson features two of the greatest British works for string orchestra: Ralph Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis,...
The three great chamber works, the String Quartet, Piano Quintet, and Violin Sonata, were among the very last works that Elgar wrote, composed during an intensive and productive period in 1918 and...
Benefitting from the afterglow of the 1949 Koussevitzky Prize for his First Symphony, Peter Racine Fricker's original and striking First Quartet was premiered later that year to international acclaim...