This piece has ;ong been close to the Kreutzer Quartet’s heart
for years, but we have never recorded it. Who wrote it, and when?
If you are one of the handful of people who have heard us play it, hold your horses for a few hours!
And here’s the answer – it is an unpublished early work by the great Priaulx Rainier, then aged 19, and going by Ivy Rainier, and a violin student at the Royal Academy of Music. We will be playing it at the Aldeburgh Festival, along with her celebrated 1939 Quartet, in a few weeks time!
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