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Britten's Endgame  
A film by John Bridcut
String Quartet no. 3 'Recitative and Passacaglia' by Benjamin Britten.
​Available from CRUX PRODUCTIONS

New Music

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UWE STEINMETZ:  ABSOLUTELY!
​Divine Art Records
The creation of  German Saxophonist and composer Uwe Steinmetz, fuses Jazz and Classical as well as new and old with original compositions by Uwe Steinmetz and improvisations over music by Purcell and Bach played by the FSQ, Steinmetz and Grammy-winning Jazz violinist Mads Tolling.
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JOHN RAMSAY
STRING QUARTETS 1-4 
Divine Art Records
​John Ramsay's Romantic 'post-modernist' music is pure self expression: passionate  and driven and, at the opposite end of the    spectrum, heartfelt and mournful.  
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MICHAEL BLAKE: STRING QUARTETS 1, 2
​PIANO QUINTET
South African composer Michael Blake captures the sound-world of traditional African musics on his CD of string quartets and a piano quintet, with Blake as pianist.

Linn Records

The Fitzwilliam's award-winning
Linn Records recordings:
Bruckner: String Quintet and Quartet
Vaughan Williams: On Wedlock Edge 
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
Haydn: The Seven Last Words

Listen to samples at Linn Records

Period Instruments

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The FSQ play on both period and modern instruments. Lucy is pictured with her baroque violin. 

Dmitri Shostakovich

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The FSQ made its name in the 1970s as the first group to record Shostakovich's complete string quartets. Almost 50 years later, Shostakovich continues to feature prominently in the group's repertoire.
Videos: Lucy Russell & Jonathan Sparey (violins), Alan George (viola), Nicola Tait Baxter (cello)