Amadeus Quartet - The RIAS Recordings: Modernism (2015) [2CD Box Set]

It is not a well-known fact that the Amadeus Quartet also championed the music of their contemporaries. For the radio, they recorded string quartets written by the major English composers of their time, Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett. The Hungarian composer Mátyás Seiber introduced the Amadeus Quartet to the works of his fellow countryman Béla Bartók. By recording Henry Purcell’s string fantasias, they followed references between Britten and the cradle of English chamber music.

Tracks:

CD 1:
Britten: String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36
Tippett: String Quartet No. 2
Purcell: Chacony
Purcell: Fantazia 7 in C minor, Z. 738
Purcell: Fantazia 9 in A minor, Z. 740

CD 2:
Seiber: String Quartet No. 3, "Quartetto lirico"
Bartók: String Quartet No. 4, Sz 91
Bartók: String Quartet No. 6, Sz 114