LP #LPI 117 (Total Time 40:59) The Rainier Quartet is also on CD #LE336. (string quartets). Leonarda Home Page. Performers: The Alard String Quartet: (Joanne Zagst; Donald Hopkins; Raymond Page; Leonard Feldman)

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String Quartets

Karel Husa (b.1921) (Czechoslovakia/USA)
String Quartet No. 1 (1948) (23:02)

Priaulx Rainier (1903-1986) (So. Africa/England)
Quartet for Strings (1939) (17:55)
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" I recommend a recent Leonarda record that couples its thoughtful accounts of Karel Husa's adventurous First Quartet and Priaulx Rainier's Quartet, the strong, delicate early work (1939) that made her name." Andrew Porter, The New Yorker.
"Rainier's music is far too good to continue to go unrecognized. This quartet succeeds marvelously - full of awareness and life, occasionally 'primitive' in its sonorities, authentic and sturdy." Oakland Tribune. "A record that immediately takes its place among the the basic recorded repertoire of 20th-century chamber music." Fanfare
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