These four folksongs for String Quartet are ideal for school students at intermediate level: short easy and fun to play. Summers was born in 1973 and started composing aged eight going on to study at Cambridge University and the Royal Northern College of Music. The four songs are: Lady Maisry; Sheep shearing song; Did you see the dark-haired boy; Sej dinom-dánom .

Score to String Quintet (arr. anon).

These arrangements of three lilting folk songs ( Billy Boy Blow the Wind Southerly The Keel Row ) are lovely to play and to listen to. They are straightforward technically and so accessible for beginner to intermediate standard players (Grade 4-6).

This edition of Onslow 's fifteenth String Quintet has the advantage of being either a two Viola or a two Cello quintet as it is published with parts for two cellists or two violists. It is a major work with good parts for all players with the 1st Violin part having a particularly large numbers of fast semi quavers (sixteenths) in the outer movements. It is known as 'The Bullet' due to the circumstances of its composition: Onslow was boar hunting in the Auvergne when a theme occurred to him. He dismounted and sat on a nearby fallen tree trunk and wrote it down. A boar then burst from the bushes and his companions fired missing the boar and hitting Onslow.The quintet was completed on his recovery and graphically illustrates his sufferings. George Onslow an Anglo-French composer was born in Clermont-Ferrand in July 1784 and died there in October 1853.

This String Quartet along with other chamber works by Onslow is worthy of serious study alongside works of other composers of the period such as Beethoven. It has a lively and tuneful first movement a beautiful theme and variations (including a florid variation with an exciting part for 1st Violin) a pretty minuet and trio and a rousing final movement. All instruments have interesting parts. George Onslow an Anglo-French composer was born in Clermont-Ferrand in July 1784 and died there in October 1853. Three of his String Quintets and his Piano quintet are also published by SJ Music (Q1993-5 Q1991-1 Q1993-4 and Q2005-2).

Arranged From The Piano Duet K521-This Piano quartet started life as Mozart's Piano duet K521. John Cooley's arrangement of it for Piano quartet is very successful and brings this lovely piece into the hands of string players.

This String Trio was only partly written by Schubert and has been finished by the Schubert expert Brian Newbould. It is a charming work and Newbould has done a wonderful job in creating a full length trio in the style of Schubert and using quotations from other Schubert works as Schubert himself did on occasion. A full note about the creation of this piece is included as a preface in the printed music.

Ten cellists two bassists and a timpanist – what a sound! And what a great piece to play when ten cellists and a couple of bassists are in one place (and a timpanist if possible!) – perhaps in the break of an orchestra rehearsal or on a music course? This relatively short piece is not hard and is very rewarding to play.