Henry Purcell
String Fantasias in Four Parts

Purcell remains one of England’s finest composers and these works for string quartet show his mastery of the Baroque style. Composed in the summer of 1680 when Purcell was 21, these intricately constructed pieces blend counterpoint with unexpected harmonies resulting in music of exquisite beauty and clarity.

Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

Composed for piano and string quartet in 1864, this piano quintet is regarded as the pinnacle of Brahms’s chamber music. Richly woven in the dark key of F minor, the music is anguished and at times tragic, but at the time it was first published in 1865 it was also described as ‘beautiful beyond words, a thing of great beauty, a masterpiece of chamber music’.

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