The Griller String Quartet:
Sydney Griller (violin) ; Jack O'Brien (violin) ; Philip Burton (viola) ; Colin Hampton (violoncello)
Karol Szymanowski , whose death was announced a few months ago, was one of the leading contemporary Polish composers. He received his musical education in Warsaw and began his career as a composer by following in Chopin's footsteps. But although he had never - quite lost his fondness for national and Chopinesque forms, he soon launched out in large-scale works on lines which Chopin never attempted, such as the Quartet No. 1, for which he was awarded in 1922 a prize by the Polish Minister of Education, and the Quartet No. 2, which will be heard this evening in England for the first time.
Quartet in A flat, Op. 105....Dvorák
1 Adagio ma non troppo--Allegro appassionato. 2 Molto vivace. 3 Lento molto cantabile. 4 Allegro non tanto