String Quartet No.6, Op.56

Category		Chamber Music > String Quartets
Composed		1990-1991
Duration (approx)		14 minutes
Notes		One of its sections may be performed separately.
Related Works		Adagio (string orchestra), Op.56b Adagio (string quartet), Op.56a
Recording(s)		Brindisi String Quartet David Matthews - Complete String Quartets, Volume One
Publisher		Faber Music
Commission		Little Missenden Festival, funded jointly by the Friends of the Festival and the Buckinghamshire Arts Association
First performance		19 October 1991
Venue		Little Missenden Festival
Orchestra / Ensemble		Brindisi String Quartet
Review		Anthony Bye, Tempo, December 1991
		Two fast movements, the first quite sparse in texture, the last vibrant and optimistic, surround a slow movement in which an unashamedly tonal elegy in memory of the art critic Peter Fuller alternates with more chromatic music of great emotional intensity. A work which deserves to enter the repertoire.