Navarra Quartet - Edward Gregson: Chamber Music - String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2; Le Jardin � Giverny; Triptych; Benedictus

Edward Gregson is a composer of international standing whose music has been performed, broadcast, and commercially recorded worldwide. Gregson is renowned for his concertos and music for band, but his chamber music reveals a more enquiring voice. In recent years these works have been enriched with greater expressive and emotional depth, ranging here from youthful impressionism to the fearsome virtuosity of Triptych, a competition test piece. Gregson�s First String Quartet was acclaimed by one critic as �an extraordinary work, both gritty and serene�, while the evocative colours of the Second are framed by the gentle lilt of a Siciliana.