THE INTERNATIONAL
STRING QUARTET:
Andre Mangeot (violin) ; Walter Price (violin) ; Eric Bray (viola) ; Jack Shine-bourne
(violoncello)
PARRY JONES (tenor) Ernest John Moeran began to compose already during his schooldays at Uppingham, where music has always been enthusiastically cultivated. As . with many others of the younger generation of English composers, his original work goes hand-in-hand with an enthusiasm for native folk music ; that of Norfolk, where a good part of his life has been spent, has always attracted him specially, as listeners have already had opportunities of hearing for themselves in his ' Norfolk Rhapsodies' and other works
He has himself collected a number of Norfolk folk tunes for the 'Folk Song Society, and it the themes in this String Quartet are hot in themselves actual melodies of the land, they have something of the direct simplicity and something of the real expressive-ness of folk song.