String Quartet No. 3
I have always enjoyed chamber music and this is the latest of my string quartets written between 1987 and 1994.
First movement – Allegro
This movement was influenced by Schubert, a favourite composer of my piano teacher, Eleanor Purce, a pupil of Alfred Cortot.
String Quartet No. 3 1st movement
Second movement – Adagio
This movement is based on earlier incomplete works for cor anglais and viola written for friends in 1981.
String Quartet No. 3 2nd movement
Third movement – Scherzo and Serenade
This was a combination of ideas from other unfulfilled commissions from as early as 1980.
String Quartet No. 3 3rd movement
Fourth movement – Presto
Originally this started out as a movment for string sextet in 1976 and had to be reduced.
