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Title: Stanford Complete String Quartets, vol.2
Post by: eschiss1 on Thursday 26 July 2018, 04:57
Three commercial premieres: quartet no.3 Op.64 in D minor, no.4 Op.99 in G minor and no.7 in C minor (Op.166, 1918 or 1919). See https://www.mdt.co.uk/stanford-charles-villiers-string-quartets-dante-quartet-somm.html (https://www.mdt.co.uk/stanford-charles-villiers-string-quartets-dante-quartet-somm.html) (MDT). Not expected out until late August. No.3 can be heard @ IMSLP and in a rare aircheck, and was published commercially; no.4 has been analyzed and published in score and parts in a recent doctoral dissertation (can be downloaded) ; no.7 was broadcast over BBC , a performance which  I believe can be heard over YouTube, but this new recording is I believe the commercial premiere of all 3.
Title: Re: Stanford Complete String Quartets, vol.2
Post by: matesic on Thursday 26 July 2018, 06:20
Nearly there at last. I assume the Dante plan to couple the unheard (by anyone here?) No.6 with the familiar Nos. 1 and 2.
Title: Re: Stanford Complete String Quartets, vol.2
Post by: Mark Thomas on Thursday 26 July 2018, 11:12
What good news!
Title: Re: Stanford Complete String Quartets, vol.2
Post by: eschiss1 on Thursday 26 July 2018, 11:52
Is it certain that no.6 still exists? The author of the recent summary @ MusicWeb seemed to imply some doubt, but I may have misread.
Title: Re: Stanford Complete String Quartets, vol.2
Post by: Mark Thomas on Thursday 26 July 2018, 12:03
According to Jeremy Dibble's biography of Stanford, the full score and parts are in the Robinson Library at Newcastle University, UK.
Title: Re: Stanford Complete String Quartets, vol.2
Post by: eschiss1 on Thursday 26 July 2018, 12:55
Thanks! (I had that book on interloan once but either didn't notice that or forgot it...)