String Quartet No 3 (Bagatelles)

Commissioned by the Lindsay String Quartet

15’ 00” duration 1995

Written as a gift to Michael Tippett at age 85. The Lindsays performed this lighter work many times: across Spain, The Cheltenham Festival, Sheffield, Manchester, Wigmore Hall London. It was broadcast twice on BBC Radio 3: at Pebble Mill and Cheltenham.

25 January 1995, BBC Pebble Mill, Lindsay String Quartet

The concert I attended was on the 29th September 1995, they gave a further two performances in Manchester alone. Also Cheltenham twice, the Wigmore Hall, twice in Sheffield at the Crucible Theatre, and across Spain to Madrid. This booklet gives some evidence of that commitment to a piece they loved.

String Quartet at Composers Edition