Wihan Quartet - Kol Nidrei: Elegy for Pamela (2017)

Tracklist

01. String Quartet No.13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130: V. Cavatina
02. Invocatio
03. A Fugue for Pamela
04. To a Nightingale
05. Votive
06. Vitae
07. At the Mid Hour of Night
08. Kol Nidrei Memorial

When I decided to mount a memorial concert for Pamela it was clear to me that chamber music had to be the basis upon which to plan the event. Chamber music pervaded her life for many years and it was appropriate to use it as the vehicle for projecting her love and dreams. The other decision I reached very quickly was that the best ensemble to perform the whole programme was the Wihan Quartet from Prague. Pamela looked after them with great affection ever since they won the First Prize as well as the Audience Prize of the London International String Quartet Competition in 1991. The Wihan Quartet always referred to her as ‘our English mother’.