A fun light hearted vivacious piece in samba rhythm for string quartet, that is both enjoyable to play and to listen to.

Three Snippets for String Quartet is a short entertaining work and concert stocking-filler - lasting only six and one half minutes. Originally written for saxophone quartet, the three movements

In this overture, arranged here for string quartet by Carlo Martelli, Handel magnificently captures the celebratory mood which the music is intended to convey. The occasion for which the work was

This is the composer's first acknowledged work and was written when he was only 17 years of age and a first year student at the Royal College of Music. The Pavao Quartet recorded this work in August 2012 on

One of the best known movements of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas, this splendid arrangement by Carlo Martelli, is another welcome addition to Broadbent and Dunn's Classic String Quartet Collection.

At the height of his maturity as a composer, Elgar composed two suites for orchestra by expanding and developing some incidental music he had composed at the age of twelve for some private theatricals. This

This arrangement by Carlo Martelli is one of six movements of a suite composed for piano by Ravel in free imitation of the style of Couperin. It is perhaps best known in the orchestral version made by the