Ian Venables' The Song Of The Severn is a cycle of songs in celebration of Worcestershire scored for Baritone Voice String Quartet and Piano. “The Song of the Severn…clothes poems by Masefield Housman John Drinkwater and Philip Worner in sharply memorable music of bewitching lyricism idiomatic grace and rapt instinct…No lover of the early-20th-century English art song or pastoral tradition should fail to investigate this notable issue.” - Andrew Achenbach Gramophone “These five songs for voice with piano and string quartet accompaniment take the Severn Riverand its historical and natural associations as a common theme. They are absolutely stunning in their poignant beauty their profoundly noble and moving sense of tragedy and desolation that never turns sentimental or lachrymose and their perfect union of text and music to a level that rivals Schubert and Mahler.” - James A. Altena Fanfare Magazine

Instrumental Accompaniment-In this suite - inspired by a trip to Switzerland - each song is a postcard capturing lush romantic moments in full. The songs are dedicated to Jerusalem born Hila Plitmann - poet of the beautiful text and the composer's wife. The suite is scored for SATB chorus with either string quartet accompaniment or piano and violin.

Author and arranger Barrie Carson Turner presents a selection of 8 Famous Opera themes arranged for string quartet. The collection includes: Non più andrai (Mozart), Intermezzo (Mascagni), Toreador Song (Bizet), Oh! mio babbino caro (Puccini), Lascia ch'io pianga (Handel), Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Verdi), Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen (Mozart), and Per poco fra le tenebre (Donizetti).The collection comes with separate part inserts for each instrument. / Quatuor A Cordes