DESCRIPTION:
Piston: String Quartet No. 1 (1933)
Dorian String Quartet:
Alexander Cores, violin I
Harry Friedman, violin II
David Mankovitz, viola
Bernard Greenhouse, cello

Recorded September 27, 1939, for Columbia in New York, on 78-rpm matrices XCO 25390 through XCO 25394. Issued in December, 1939, as Masterworks Set M-388 (records 69745-D through 69747-D), and in slide automatic sequence as AM-388 (records 69748-D through 69750-D). A drop automatic version appeared the next year, MM-388 (records 70057-D through 70059-D). The Quartet takes five sides; the filler is Henry Cowell's Movement for String Quartet, which has been uploaded separately.

Piston's String Quartet No. 1 is in three movements:

1. Allegro
2, Adagio; Moderato un poco mosso (at 6:22)
3. Allegro vivace (at 14:40)