Bridge & Walton: String Quartets

Throughout his composing career, William Walton rarely ventured into chamber music, but composed true masterpieces, such as his second string quartet. His first one was a youth work he later on disowned, leaving chamber music aside for more than twenty years before writing, amid a thousand difficulties, the moving and very personal String Quartet in A Minor. Frank Bridge, on the contrary, composed intensively for this format all along his lifetime, from pleasant romantic miniatures to modern pieces such as the third quartet. Both works are performed by the Endellion Quartet, an ensemble specialized in music from their native Britain.