Quartet in B flat, Op. 50, No. 1 played by The Marie Dare Quartet-Marjorie Hayward (violin) ; Irene Richards (violin) ; Olive Davidson (viola) ;
Marie Dare (cello)
This series, which began last week with Haydn's Quartet in D, Op. 20, No. 4, introduces some of the more unfamiliar quartets which, for no good reason, are generally neglected by string quartet ensembles.
The quartet to be broadcast this afternoon is the first of a set of six which werescomposed in 1784-7 and dedicated to the King of Prussia, Frederick William II , the son of Frederick the Great. Frederick William II was a cellist himself and that may account for the fact that the cello part of this quartet requires considerable technical ability.