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Four of the players in this outstanding ensemble were founder members at its inception in 1978. All five are top ranking players with a wealth of world wide concert experience between them, as soloists and orchestral principals as well as chamber music players. Long standing friends, they share an evergreen love of music making, and a passion for the rich sonorities of the string ensemble repertoire. Much acclaimed o n their first visit here two years ago, this top-notch string quintet return by popular demand to launch our two-season Walton celebration with a performance of his early first string quartet of 1922, along with some Purcell Fantasias and a string version of Brahm's magnificent Piano Quintet.