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The Purcell String Quartet was known not merely among the more important Canadian string quartets in the latter half from the twentieth century, but as an ensemble wanting to both premiere and champion functions by contemporary Canadian composers. It presented such compositions as R. Murray Schafer’s Initial (1972), Second (1977), …

Richard Boothby performs viola da gamba music from the center Ages for this and is for the forefront of expanding the modern repertoire for the instrument. He researched efficiency practice with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg, after that founded the Purcell Quartet in 1984. In 1985, he became a founding person …

The Purcell Quartet is becoming recognized as among the leading chamber groups in the realm of Baroque music performance. As its name suggests, the group offers devoted much work to championing the chamber functions of Henry Purcell, playing and documenting plenty of his result, notably the entire three- and four-part …