Works for chamber orchestra and string quartet performed by A Far Cry and the Orion String Quartet.

• Elgar: Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20
• Sibelius: String Quartet in D minor, Op. 56 "Voces Intimae"

There is something uniquely intimate about chamber music for strings. At times, the ensemble can sound like one enormous instrument, resonating together; at others, the effect is of independent voices, the differences in timbre and register emphasized. Indeed, many composers seem to use the string quartet as a sort of musical depiction of internal struggles, of the life of the mind.