String Meditation

For many, string instruments – the soaring violin, the mellow viola, the soulful cello – come closest to the human voice: flexible, singing and minutely controllable in terms of colour and timbre. This playlist presents some of the most beautiful movements that bring these instruments together. Compositions for string quartet, quintet, sextet and orchestra that show their creators at their most personal – sometimes melancholy and tinged with sadness, but with an underlying sense of serenity and hope. Music to move and inspire.