Alwyn: String Quartets, Nos. 1-3

Alwyn: String Quartets, Nos. 1-3

For British composer William Alwyn CBE the string quartet was the "most perfect of mediums". His String Quartet No. 1 of 1953 recalls the sound worlds of DvořAk, JanAček and Smetana, while repaying his debt to the Czech tradition with memorab