“That this score contains the best of me I do not doubt,” Frank Bridge wrote in a letter to his patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge of his 3rd String Quartet.
He was not wrong, as this quartet undoubtedly represents Bridge coming into his style and maturity as a composer, quickly becoming one of his most celebrated pieces. Catch it in its entirety performed by the Maggini Quartet, 11 to noon on KUAF.
