Par SIMPSON ROBERT. '. . .the quartet is a highly distinctive work, a welcome addition to Simpson's significant contribution to the British twentieth-century string quartet.'Trevor Bray, Music and Letters Vol. 68, 3 April 1989/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par ADES THOMAS. Thomas Adès’s second work for string quartet, The Four Quarters was written for the Emerson Quartet and was premiered by them at Carnegie Hall in 2011. The winner of the 2012 British Composer Award for Chamber Composition, the 20-minute work charts the progress of a day. Glassy harmonics typify the opening movement Nightfalls, whilst playful pizzicati abound in Serenade – Morning Dew. A sombre third movement, Days, is underpinned by a searching ostinato before the work breaks free from conventional time in The Twenty-Fifth Hour, the glittering finale which swings and dances in the unusual time signature of 25/16. / Ensemble Music / Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes

Par BENNETT WILLIAM STERNDALE. Edited by Geoffrey Bush A Piano Sonata, a Suite de Pièces, a Chamber Trio for violin, cello and piano and a Sonata-Duo for cello and piano bear witness to the underrated skills of this Victorian composer and administrator who was an important precursor of the British musical renaissance. First published in 1972, reprinted with corrections 1985./ Répertoire / Divers

Par SIMPSON ROBERT. Complete Study Score edition. 'This is a 'Ninth' and no mistake. . .the most significant British string quartet of the century. . .'David J Brown, Tempo, March 1985/ Répertoire / Quatuor à Cordes