The Escher Quartet
The Escher Quartet, New Generation Artists (2010-2012), play Elgar's String Quartet.
New Generation Artists: The Escher Quartet
Former NGAs, the USA-based Escher Quartet, heard in a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ studio recording of Elgar's Quartet made in 2012.
Elgar wrote his String Quartet in the summer and autumn of 1918 when, depressed by his own ill health and the horrors of the First World War, he retired from London to 'Brinkwells', a cottage that Lady Elgar had found in the Sussex countryside near Fittleworth. It was in the seclusion of the Sussex woods that he wrote most of the quartet whose slow movement Lady Elgar described as "captured sunshine". Indeed it was played at her funeral in 1920.
Elgar: String Quartet Op.83
The Escher Quartet.
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Edward Elgar
String Quartet in E minor, Op 83
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Igor Stravinsky
Scherzo Γ la russe
Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Conductor: Robert Craft.- American Stravinsky the Composer, Volume IV.
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- Wed 11 Jul 2018 16:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3