THE PORTLAND
STRING QUARTET:
Alan Bartlett (violin); Ralph Nicholson (violin) ; Violet Brough (viola);
Barbara Amor-Wright (violoncello)
VERONICA MANSFIELD (mezzo-soprano)
Robin Milford , the son of Humphrey Milford, who publishes at the Oxford University Press, is a brilliant member of the younger group of British composers. He has, of course, not written very much as yet, but listeners may remember a charming little operetta performed a few years ago entitled The Shoemaker, and a more recent composition of his performed last December at Bournemouth by Sir Dan Godfrey entitled ' Sir Walter's Overture '.
This miniature quartet is written in a form which is fast becoming traditional, but which originated not more than twenty years ago with the competitions organised by W. W. Cobbett , a venture from which rose so many splendid British chamber music works.