COMPOSERS: Britten
LABELS: Brilliant
WORKS: String Quartets Nos 1-3 & in D; Simple Symphony
PERFORMER: Britten Quartet
CATALOGUE NO: 9168
This survey of Benjamin Britten’s quartet music has tremendous authority and verve in the earlier pieces, and almost unbearable poignancy in the final passacaglia of Quartet No. 3. Calum MacDonald