1 String Quartet No 4 (The Cold Dancer)*[2005] (1MB)
Kenneth Dempster (b. 1962):
2 The Great Divorce for string quartet*[1990]
James Clapperton (b. 1968):
3-5 String Quartet [1990] (1MB)
Judith Weir (b. 1954):
6-8 String Quartet No 3*[2004] (1MB)
William Sweeney (b. 1950):
*world premiere recordings;

Rich and personal contributions to the quartet tradition from four contemporary Scottish composing voices, ranging from the lyrical profundity of Kenneth Dempster’s meditation on a George Mackay Brown poem to a characteristically idiosyncratic and yet songful work by Judith Weir. Under their new leader Charles Mutter, the Edinburgh Quartet deliver blazing, committed performances celebrating the immense variety and vitality of work on offer. ‘a bright sound with a ring of steel around it that is ideal for modern music’ Daily Telegraph