String Quartets 2, 3 & 4/If & Why

Infobox Album
Name = String Quartets 2, 3 & 4/If & Why
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Michael Nyman


Cover size = 200
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Released = September 24, 2002
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Genre = Contemporary classical, Chamber music, minimalism, art song
Length =
Language = English
Label = Black Box Classics
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Producer =
Reviews = BBC (favorable) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/v5cz/]
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Chronology =
Last album = The Claim
2000
This album = String Quartets 2, 3 & 4/
If & Why
2002
Next album = Facing Goya
2002
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"String Quartets 2, 3 & 4/If & Why" is an album by Simon Haram, The Lyric Quartet, and members of The Michael Nyman Band, featuring music by Michael Nyman. "If" and "Why" are songs written for "The Diary of Anne Frank", where they were performed by Hilary Summers and the Michael Nyman Band. Here, the melody lines are taken by Simon Haram's alto saxophone.

Track listing

# String Quartet No. 2
# String Quartet No. 3
# Miserere Paraphrase, for violin & piano
# In Re Don Giovanni, for band
# String Quartet No. 4 No. 1
# String Quartet No. 4 No. 3
# String Quartet No. 4 No. 6
# String Quartet No. 4 No. 11
# String Quartet No. 4 No. 12
# If
# Why

Personnel

*Bruce White, viola
*Ian Humphries, violin
*Simon Haram, saxophone
*Anthony Hinnigan, cello
*Ann Morfee, violin
*Elizabeth Burley,