WALTER PISTON (1894-1976): String Quartets Nos. 1, 3 & 5.

Description: Collectors will remember fondly the Northeastern series of Piston's quartets from the late 1980s; those who never got them will welcome this new recording of the lithe, neo-classical First of 1933, the intense melodic writing and Bartókian rhythmic trenchancy of the Third (1947) and the 1962 Fifth which combines rich expressiveness with a spiky counterpoint born of the rare use of serial techniques. Harlem Quartet.