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

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

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.

Raindrops Fantasia, Op. 5  is essentially a set of free variations in early Romantic style. The work develops a simple three note motif (E-D#-E) in both the minor and major modes. Each

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

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

Alfonso Cavallero's Serenade, like its sister composition Tango, is essentially a very tonal concert piece, loosely modelled after those of Fritz Kreisler. The composition assumes the

This 2014 publication might well have benn composed 300 years earlier, being a truly Baroque sonoata in four movements (slow-fast-slow-fast). The composer has adhered not only to the harmonic and structural

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

Alfonso Cavallaro's Tango, like its sister composition Serenade, is essentially a very tonal concert piece, loosely modelled after those of Fritz Kreisler. The composition assumes the

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