1st recorded performance: Arditti Quartet, ICA London, 8 September 1985
for string quartet
Commissioned by Southill Park, Bracknell
Arditti String Quartet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
+ Huddersfield, Bath
7’ 00” duration 1982
Hoyland’s tough new single-movement string quartet
Desmond Shaw-Taylor
Fine playing in the String Quartet by Vic Hoyland, who has a remarkable flair for conceiving and recording vivid sonority and a mind capable of controlling it
Robert Cockroft
A good vintage of new music: Hoyland’s quartet, tightly worked, tough music
Andrew Clements