The Medici Quartet is well known both because of its critically acclaimed performances from the Beethoven quartets as well as for various functions by British composers, specifically Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi, Michael Tippett, and John Tavener. But there is a third element towards the group’s popularity, one distributed by …

Adam Byrne was widely considered the top modern exponent from the affluent fiddle custom of Ireland’s State Donegal. Delivered An Beirneach in the southwest seaside city of Glencolmcille on January 1, 1946, he discovered fiddle at your feet of his dad John, a observed participant in his very own correct …