Mildred Watson (Soprano)
The Lena Mason String Quartet:
Lena Mason (1st Violin), Reginald Morley (2nd Violin), Muriel Hart (Viola),Ã Alexander Niposi (Violoncello)
Boccherini might be called, without disrespect, a wholesale music-merchant. Probably no other composer in the world's history wrote such a mass of music in the 'classical' forms - 20 Symphonies, 54 String Trios, 95 String Quartets, 125 String Quintets, and so on - nearly 500 instrumental works in all. Yet he died in poverty.
Amongst the lush growth of his compositions Time with his sickle has, alas! ruthlessly mowed. Of all his works, few of us know anything save a certain famous Minuet. There is much good-humoured, mellifluous music in his works, easy and pleasant to listen to, as will be generally agreed after this Quartet has been played.
