The Amici String Quartet Lionel Bentley (violin) Sylvia Cleaver (violin) Harold Harriott (viola) Joy Hall (cello)
Like all great modern music Bartok's six string quartets look back at the same time As they look forward. He himself said that Beethoven was their chief inspiration. The sixth quartet demonstrates very Well what he meant. It is ' classical ' in the univenal sense of the word: the emphasis is on what the musical ideaa become rather than on what they arc.
