String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 5 (Harty)
from Harty: String Quartets & Piano Quintet (CDA67927)
1 Allegro ma non troppo [7'23]
2 Vivace sempre leggiero [5'44]
3 Lento [7'03]
4 Allegro con brio – Molto vivace [6'13]
26 minutes 23 seconds 4 tracks
‘Here, most valuably, we have three of Harty's important chamber works … Piers Lane plays immaculately with great sympathy … and the Goldner Quartet play warmly to bring out the finest quali ...
‘The Goldner String Quartet, joined in the Quintet by Piers Lane, displays just the right warmth and spirit to suit this attractive music … Hyperion's succulent recording is a peach’ (BBC Music M ...
‘Harty's melodies are appealing and graceful, the counterpoint is never overwrought … song-like passages intervene in the Scherzo [of the Second Quartet], and there is more Romantic song in the t ...