Reginald Paul Pianoforte Quartet: David Wise (violin) ; Watson Forbes (viola) ; John Moore (violoncello) ;
Reginald Paul (pianoforte)
In 1906 William Yeates Hurlstone died at the age of thirty. He had already proved himself a highly gifted composer and one of the most promising of the younger British school. Hurlstone's first work was a set of ' Five Valses ' for piano, which were published when he was only nine years of age. At eighteen he won a scholarship at the Royal College of Music and studied composition under Stanford for several years.
The Piano Quartet in E minor, which was published posthumously, is the composer's most elaborate chamber work, and although it shows considerable individuality, it also displays certain influences of Brahms.