The three great chamber works, the String Quartet, Piano Quintet, and Violin Sonata, were among the very last works that Edward Elgar wrote, composed during an intensive and productive period in 1918 and 1919.
The String Quartet was dedicated to the original Brodsky Quartet (the name subsequently taken by the current group) and was championed by this new Brodsky Quartet.
The Brodsky Quartet took the opportunity of the centenary year of both works to perform the String Quartet alongside the Piano Quintet with their frequent co-performer Martin Roscoe, and this recording is a result of that commemoration.
Here is the Quintet for Piano and Strings by Elgar:
