String Quartet No.1 (Robben Island)

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“…his expertise in writing for stringed instruments shone through this 25-minute journey through sadness, agitation, fear and trembling to the joy of South Africa's new beginning. ...The four inner movements were packed with incident…atmospheric…illustrative. ... Before and after came chorales, weaving down from on high, soaked in sorrow and injustice. ... The Allegri proved splendid advocates of this restless, eloquent piece.” (The Times)

"Michael Stimpson is one of Britain's fastest rising composers" (Turner Sims)

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