The E-Flat Major String Quartet Op. 127 is a key work not only in Beethoven’s oeuvre but in the entire history of the genre. The first of the late quartets it 'transfers the formal and symbolicaspects of his two major works for Chorus and Orchestra [the Missa solemnis and the Ninth Symphony] to the more intimate domain of chamber music' (William Kinderman). For years music lovers have been waiting for a new editionbased on the scholarly text from the new Beethoven Gesamtausgabe. The wait has paid off! The highly complex source situation was examined for the first time and thus Beethoven’s 'final intentions' are nowavailable in an urtext edition. The set of parts (HN 740) and the score (HN 9740) both come with a detailed preface and editorial notes.

Fragment for String Quartet is an arrangement of an extract from And there was a great calm a Diptych for string orchestra and upper voices.

This edition of Purcell's Chacony In G Minor Z 730 was prepared in 1947-8 for a performance on the 30th January 1948 by the Collegium Musicum Zurich which was conducted by Benjamin Britten in the Kleiner Tonhallesaal in Zurich. This piece is written for string quartet or a string orchestra.

The composer writes My third string quartet was commissioned by the Smith Quartet (London) and first performed by them in 1994 at the Brighton Festival. The intention of the work was to transform four stringed instruments into a single super instrument while capitalising on their natural singing qualities. A kind of aural alchemy. Carl Vine