Quartetto Intimo Op. 89 / Lento Quieto (From Quartetto Geniale Op. 97) / Aquarelles (Music – Pictures Group 2) Op. 32

Released in 1981 on the Pearl label, this recording features the Endellion String Quartet performing works by the British composer John Foulds. The album was part of a broader late-twentieth-century effort to revisit Foulds’s chamber music, which had largely faded from public consciousness following his death in 1939. By including his Quartetto Intimo and his evocative Aquarelles, this release provided listeners with a rare window into his idiosyncratic, often mystical harmonic language.

The Endellion String Quartet, founded in 1979, was chosen to interpret these challenging scores during a period when their reputation for technical precision and interpretative depth was rapidly growing. The production, cataloged as SHE 564, was received as a significant contribution to the discography of British twentieth-century music, helping to secure Foulds's status as a composer of distinct individuality who bridged the gap between late Romanticism and the avant-garde experiments of the interwar period.