Williams: String Quartets Nos 1 & 2; Holst: Phantasy Quartet

SOMM Recordings celebrates the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth with insightful, deeply felt accounts of his String Quartets Nos.1 and 2, coupled with Gustav Holst’s Phantasy Quartet, by the Tippett Quartet. This major release sheds new light on one of the enduring friendships of 20th century British music, Vaughan Williams and Holst having first met at the Royal College of Music in 1895. (SOMM)