The
Emperor Quartet follows the most substantial of Britten's three numbered
quartets with three of the quartet works that preceded them. Both the
Three Divertimenti of 1936 and the D major Quartet are relatively well
known, but this is the first recording of the Miniature Suite, composed
in 1929 when Britten was 16. It's a succession of genre pieces –
novelette, minuet, romanza and gavotte – but apart from a precocious
fluency, none of them reveals much of the future composer. The Emperor
Quartet play all three with the right mix of witty insouciance and
technical accomplishment, but the group reveals its true colours in the
Second Quartet. (The Guardian)
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