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String Quartet No. 3 in G major, Op 94
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Performers: Elias Quartet
Recording date: 04 July 2010
Date of broadcast: 20 August 2011
Written in Britten's last year of life, this is music stripped to the bone. Every string seems over-wound with music full of unresolved tension. Perhaps he's saying, 'I must go, but not yet.'
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Performers: Elias Quartet
Recording date: 04 July 2010
Date of broadcast: 20 August 2011
