Canadian Quartet Tops Masters' Minor Works
[...] this new string quartet of his is not only his profoundest utterance but a
strong, compelling work.
I think it safe to say the heart and soul are in the long slow movement. [...]
The outer movements are more strenuous and dramatic. The whole work hangs marvellously
together.
It took him more than five years to write, with constant revisions. "Now," he declared, "I am satisfied with it!" And well he might be, and with the sympathetic performance it received, from his fellow-musicians
in the Parlow Quartet.
[...]
