Part 1
Brahms String Quartet In B flat major. Op 67
9.40. Bartok String Quartet No 4 (1928)
10.5* Rare Greatness
HANS KELLER submits that, Mendelssohn, Bartok and Schoenberg apart, Smetana is the only great composer born in the 19th century who wrote a consistently great string quartet - the one to be heard in part 2.
10.20* Melos Quartet: part 2
Smetana String Quartet No *, in E minor (From my life)
(A public concert given in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, on 21 March)