THE INTERNATIONAL
STRING QUARTET:
Andre Mangeot (violin) ; Walter Price (violin) ; Max Gilbert (viola) ;
Bernard Richards (violoncello)
FRANK PHILLIPS (baritone)
ALEC WHITTAKER (oboe)
QUARTET
Two Fancies (by J. Jenkins , 1592-1678) and J. Ward) transcribed for String quartet by Andre Mangeot from manuscript at Christ Church Library, Oxford Benjamin Britten comes from Lowestoft, where he was born in 1913. It is said that he began to compose almost from the time that he first learnt to use a pen. At the age of nine he began studying composition under Frank Bridge, and a short time later took piano lessons from Harold Samuel. Britten then entered the Royal College of Music and became the pupil of John Ireland.
He has already established himself as one of the most gifted composers of the younger British school, and in his major compositions, such as the Sinfonietta for ten solo instruments and 'A Boy was Born' for unaccompanied voices - both of which were first heard at BBC Contemporary Music Concerts in 1934 - he writes with genuine inspiration.
QUARTET
Quartet in D flat, Op. 15 ... Dohnanyi
I. AndanteâAllegro ; 2. Presto acciacato ; 3. Molto adagio
