CLASSICAL MUSIC - LINDSAY STRING QUARTET

PERFORMERS:

Ronald Birks, Peter Cropper,

Bernard Gregor-Smith, Robin Ireland

This recital with the Lindsay String Quartet was recorded live at the Wigmore Hall, London and includes Haydn's Quartet 'The Rider', Tippett's Quartet no 3 (premiered at Wigmore Hall on 19 October 1946) and Elgar's Quartet in E minor Op.83 (premiered at Wigmore Hall).

The Lindsays have a special relationship with the music of Sir Michael Tippett, and have recorded all his string quartets. They gave the world premiere of the Fourth in 1979, and commissioned and premiered the Fifth in Sheffield in May 1992.

The quartet plays on a remarkable set of instruments: Peter Cropper on a Stradivarius from the Golden Period and Robin Ireland on a Mori Costa viola c.1810, while Ronald Birks and Bernard Gregor-Smith are fortunate to be loaned the "Campo Selice" Stradivarius of 1694 and a Ruggieri cello of the same year.

"Their playing has a human scale and involvement that make it ideal for Haydn. It is hard to think of another group who could produce performances as alive and constantly inquisitive as these" The Guardian