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-|Group II. ''Three Old French Melodies''<br />(c) ''Danse Basse'' [sic] ''"Jouissance vous donnerai"''<br/>Group I. (b) ''Two Scottish Dances'' (Strathspey "Tullochgorum", Reel "Johnny Lad")||<div style="text-align: center;">03488</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">R 6140</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1924</div>||First recording of this item<br /><br />First issued recording by Spencer Dyke String Quartet||Private collection; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
+|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blackwood_McEwen '''McEwen''']</span> ''Suite of Old National Dances'' (String Quartet No.12) -<br/>Group II. ''Three Old French Melodies'' (c) ''Danse Basse'' [sic] ''"Jouissance vous donnerai"''<br/>Group I. (b) ''Two Scottish Dances'' (Strathspey "Tullochgorum", Reel "Johnny Lad")||<div style="text-align: center;">03488</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">R 6140</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1924</div>||First recording of this item<br /><br />First issued recording by Spencer Dyke String Quartet||Private collection; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
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-|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blackwood_McEwen '''McEwen''']</span> ''Suite of Old National Dances'' (String Quartet No.12) -<br/>Group III. ''Two Japanese Dances''<br />(a) ''The Harvest of the Sea Salt'', Japanese Vocal Dance. Adagio<br />(b) ''Butterfly Dance''. Molto vivace||<div style="text-align: center;">03487</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">R 6140</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1924</div>||First recording of this item<br /><br />Note side order, which follows that shown in contemporary bulletins and catalogues||Private collection; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
+|Group III. ''Two Japanese Dances''<br />(a) ''The Harvest of the Sea Salt'', Japanese Vocal Dance. Adagio<br />(b) ''Butterfly Dance''. Molto vivace||<div style="text-align: center;">03487</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">R 6140</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1924</div>||First recording of this item<br /><br />Note side order, which follows that shown in contemporary bulletins and catalogues||Private collection; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
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 |<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bridge '''Bridge''', Frank]</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Novelletten%2C_H.44_(Bridge%2C_Frank) ''Noveletten'']</span> –<br />(i) Andante moderato||<div style="text-align: center;">03485</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">D 02155</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">June 1924</div>||First recording of this item<br /><br />First known recording by Spencer Dyke String Quartet||<span class="plainlinks">[https://sounds.bl.uk/related-content/TEXTS/029I-AVOCX1924X06-0000A0.pdf ''Vocalion Records Bulletin No.35 June 1924'']</span>; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017

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 |Group II. ''Three Old French Melodies''<br />(c) ''Danse Basse'' [sic] ''"Jouissance vous donnerai"''<br/>Group I. (b) ''Two Scottish Dances'' (Strathspey "Tullochgorum", Reel "Johnny Lad")||<div style="text-align: center;">03488</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">R 6140</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1924</div>||First recording of this item<br /><br />First issued recording by Spencer Dyke String Quartet||Private collection; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
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-|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blackwood_McEwen '''McEwen''']</span> ''Suite of Old National Dances'' (String Quartet No.12) -<br/>Group III. ''Two Japanese Dances''<br />(a) ''The Harvest of the Sea Salt'', Japanese Vocal Dance. Adagio<br />(b) ''Butterfly Dance''. Molto vivace||<div style="text-align: center;">03487</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">R 6140</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1924</div>||First recording of this item<br /><br />Note matrix order, which follows that shown in contemporary bulletins and catalogues||Private collection; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
+|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blackwood_McEwen '''McEwen''']</span> ''Suite of Old National Dances'' (String Quartet No.12) -<br/>Group III. ''Two Japanese Dances''<br />(a) ''The Harvest of the Sea Salt'', Japanese Vocal Dance. Adagio<br />(b) ''Butterfly Dance''. Molto vivace||<div style="text-align: center;">03487</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">R 6140</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1924</div>||First recording of this item<br /><br />Note side order, which follows that shown in contemporary bulletins and catalogues||Private collection; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
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 |<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bridge '''Bridge''', Frank]</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Novelletten%2C_H.44_(Bridge%2C_Frank) ''Noveletten'']</span> –<br />(i) Andante moderato||<div style="text-align: center;">03485</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">D 02155</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">June 1924</div>||First recording of this item<br /><br />First known recording by Spencer Dyke String Quartet||<span class="plainlinks">[https://sounds.bl.uk/related-content/TEXTS/029I-AVOCX1924X06-0000A0.pdf ''Vocalion Records Bulletin No.35 June 1924'']</span>; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017

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-|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blackwood_McEwen '''McEwen''']</span> ''Suite of Old National Dances'' (String Quartet No.12) -<br/>Group III. ''Two Japanese Dances''<br />(a) ''The Harvest of the Sea Salt'', Japanese Vocal Dance. Adagio<br />(b) ''Butterfly Dance''. Molto vivace||<div style="text-align: center;">03487</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">R 6140</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1924</div>||First recording of this item<br />First issued recording by Spencer Dyke String Quartet||Private collection; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
+|Group II. ''Three Old French Melodies''<br />(c) ''Danse Basse'' [sic] ''"Jouissance vous donnerai"''<br/>Group I. (b) ''Two Scottish Dances'' (Strathspey "Tullochgorum", Reel "Johnny Lad")||<div style="text-align: center;">03488</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">R 6140</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1924</div>||First recording of this item<br /><br />First issued recording by Spencer Dyke String Quartet||Private collection; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
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-|Group II. ''Three Old French Melodies''<br />(c) ''Danse Basse'' [sic] ''"Jouissance vous donnerai"''<br/>Group I. (b) ''Two Scottish Dances'' (Strathspey "Tullochgorum", Reel "Johnny Lad")||<div style="text-align: center;">03488</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">R 6140</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1924</div>||First recording of this item||Private collection; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
+|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blackwood_McEwen '''McEwen''']</span> ''Suite of Old National Dances'' (String Quartet No.12) -<br/>Group III. ''Two Japanese Dances''<br />(a) ''The Harvest of the Sea Salt'', Japanese Vocal Dance. Adagio<br />(b) ''Butterfly Dance''. Molto vivace||<div style="text-align: center;">03487</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">R 6140</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1924</div>||First recording of this item<br /><br />Note matrix order, which follows that shown in contemporary bulletins and catalogues||Private collection; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
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-|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bridge '''Bridge''', Frank]</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Novelletten%2C_H.44_(Bridge%2C_Frank) ''Noveletten'']</span> –<br />(i) Andante moderato||<div style="text-align: center;">03485</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">D 02155</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">June 1924</div>||First recording of this item<br />First known recording by Spencer Dyke String Quartet||<span class="plainlinks">[https://sounds.bl.uk/related-content/TEXTS/029I-AVOCX1924X06-0000A0.pdf ''Vocalion Records Bulletin No.35 June 1924'']</span>; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
+|<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bridge '''Bridge''', Frank]</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/Novelletten%2C_H.44_(Bridge%2C_Frank) ''Noveletten'']</span> –<br />(i) Andante moderato||<div style="text-align: center;">03485</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">D 02155</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">June 1924</div>||First recording of this item<br /><br />First known recording by Spencer Dyke String Quartet||<span class="plainlinks">[https://sounds.bl.uk/related-content/TEXTS/029I-AVOCX1924X06-0000A0.pdf ''Vocalion Records Bulletin No.35 June 1924'']</span>; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
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 |(iii) Allegro vivo||<div style="text-align: center;">03486</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">D 02155</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">June 1924</div>||First recording of this item||<span class="plainlinks">[https://sounds.bl.uk/related-content/TEXTS/029I-AVOCX1924X06-0000A0.pdf ''Vocalion Records Bulletin No.35 June 1924'']</span>; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
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 |(ii) Lento [part 2]||<div style="text-align: center;">03698</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">late 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">K 05133</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">March 1925</div>||||Private collection; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
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-|(iii) Molto vivace||<div style="text-align: center;">03626X</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">late 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">K 05134</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">March 1925</div>||Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017, omits take suffix||Private collection
+|(iii) Molto vivace||<div style="text-align: center;">03626X</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">late 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">K 05134</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">March 1925</div>||Layout of movements on this disc unverified||Private collection<br />Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017, omits take suffix
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-|(iv) Finale. Vivace ma non troppo||<div style="text-align: center;">03700</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">late 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">K 05134</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">March 1925</div>||Division of movements on this disc unclear||Private collection; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
+|(iv) Finale. Vivace ma non troppo||<div style="text-align: center;">03700</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">late 1924(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">K 05134</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">12" / 30 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">March 1925</div>||Layout of movements on this disc unverified||Private collection; Andrews, Frank et al. ''Vocalion Records'', CLPGS Reference Series No.42, 2017
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 |<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Haydn '''Haydn''']</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_in_D_major%2C_Hob.III:63_(Haydn%2C_Joseph) String Quartet in D major Op.64 No.5]</span> –<br />(i) Allegro moderato [part 1]||<div style="text-align: center;">03804</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">early 1925(?)</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">ac</div>||Vocalion studio,<br />Duncan Avenue, London||<div style="text-align: center;">X 9554</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">10" / 25 cm</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">April 1925</div>||First complete, uncut recording of this work||<span class="plainlinks">[https://sounds.bl.uk/related-content/TEXTS/029I-VOCBX1925X04-0000A0.pdf ''Vocalion Records Bulletin No.45 April, 1925'']</span>; auction listings

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-*''Le Triomphe de la République, ou Le Camp de Grandpré'' [RH.618] (divertissement-lyrique in 1 act) - Tambourin, arranged '''Sharpe''', Cedric
+*''Le Triomphe de la République, ou Le Camp de Grandpré'' [RH.618] (divertissement-lyrique in 1 act), Tambourin, arranged '''Sharpe''', Cedric
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 Vocalion had been at the forefront of classical record production in Britain for some years. In 1919 it had lured the violinist <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Sammons Albert Sammons]</span> (1886-1957) away from rival Columbia, followed in 1920 by the <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_String_Quartet London String Quartet]</span>, which Sammons had led before going solo. Alongside the viola player <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Tertis Lionel Tertis]</span> (1876-1975), these artists recorded a considerable amount of chamber music for Vocalion, admittedly often abridged or, as in several of Tertis' recordings, slightly rescored. But by mid-1924 the London String Quartet had moved on again,<ref>Potter, Tully 'The life (and strange afterlife) of the London String Quartet', booklet essay for Music & Arts Programs CD-1253(8), 2011</ref> leaving a gap in Vocalion's stable of artists. Which to choose among the many string quartets then active in Britain? Intriguingly, in November 1923, an unsigned notice had appeared in the sixth number of ''The Gramophone'' magazine, assessing not records or machines but recent concerts in London:
   'I believe the Spencer Dyke Quartet are not yet to be found on any gramophone list, but I hope before long that their fine playing may be made accessible to every lover of music.'<ref>'Concerts', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.I No.8, January 1924, p.169; the concert in question took place on 21 November 1923 at the Wigmore Hall in London, when the Spencer Dyke String Quartet played Beethoven's <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.14%2C_Op.131_(Beethoven%2C_Ludwig_van) String Quartet in c# minor Op.131]</span>, J.B. McEwen's ''Suite of Old National Dances'' (String Quartet No.12), and Haydn's <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_in_B-flat_major,_Hob.III:78_(Haydn,_Joseph) String Quartet in Bb Op.76 No.4]</span></ref>
-The writer also pointed out which items from the programme would record well, including <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blackwood_McEwen J.B. McEwen's]</span> ''Suite of Old National Dances''. Some weeks later the clarion call was sounded with even more vehemence:
+The writer also pointed out which items from the Quartet's London concert would record well, including <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blackwood_McEwen J.B. McEwen's]</span> ''Suite of Old National Dances''. Some weeks later the clarion call was sounded with even more vehemence:
   'Most critics agree that the Spencer Dyke Quartet is as good as the very best. Which of the recording companies will secure its services? One comes away from these chamber concerts smouldering with rage because the access to such beauty and refinement is still denied to all but a handful of listeners.'<ref>'Concerts', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.I No.10, March 1924, p.216; the concert in question took place on 30 January 1924, again at the Wigmore Hall in London, when the Spencer Dyke Quartet played Brahms' <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.3%2C_Op.67_(Brahms%2C_Johannes) String Quartet in Bb Op.67]</span>, <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Howells Herbert Howells']</span> third string quartet <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W873_66139 ''In Gloucestershire'']</span>, and Dvořák's <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.12%2C_Op.96_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k%2C_Anton%C3%ADn) String Quartet in F Op.96]</span></ref>
 As before, the writer noted which items needed recording, such as Dvořák's <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.12%2C_Op.96_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k%2C_Anton%C3%ADn) String Quartet in F Op.96]</span>. Ostensibly insignificant, these articles raise questions which cannot be answered. By now, the Quartet had almost certainly made its first recordings for Vocalion, including excerpts from the very work by <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blackwood_McEwen J.B. McEwen]</span> previously commended; and its next session yielded the Dvořák, complete. Did ''The Gramophone'' influence Vocalion's choices of artists and repertoire? Was this discreet 'plugging'? Or mere coincidence? Whatever the truth, the Quartet's association with Vocalion was short-lived. It opened with two single discs of excerpts from contemporary works, both gramophone premieres and possibly an attempt to test buyers' interest in such music. If so, sales may have been disappointing, as the next two productions presented two of the most popular quartets in the repertoire. Again, both were effectively gramophone premieres; one had previously been issued complete only in an experimental long-play format, doomed to failure,<ref><span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn_Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k Dvořák]</span> <span class="plainlinks">[https://imslp.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No.12%2C_Op.96_(Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k%2C_Anton%C3%ADn) String Quartet in F major Op.96]</span>:
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 Vocalion supplements and disc labels did not name the members of the Spencer Dyke String Quartet.<ref>See e.g. <span class="plainlinks">[https://sounds.bl.uk/related-content/TEXTS/029I-AVOCX1924X06-0000A0.pdf ''Vocalion Records Bulletin No.35 June 1924'']</span> (unpaginated) and <span class="plainlinks">[https://sounds.bl.uk/related-content/TEXTS/029I-VOCBX1925X04-0000A0.pdf ''Vocalion Records Bulletin No.45 April, 1925'']</span> (unpaginated)</ref> There is no reason to suppose that they were different from the original, well-documented personnel.
-All the recordings are assumed to have been made in Vocalion's London studio.<ref>This an extrapolation from the fact that all productions recorded by Vocalion for the [[#National Gramophonic Society|National Gramophonic Society]] were recorded in the company's Duncan Avenue studio, see 'Trade Winds and Idle Zephyrs', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.V No.9, February 1928, pp.366-68 (on p.368); Vocalion quit the premises in 1931, see 'Turn Table Talk', ibid., Vol.IX No.103, December 1931, pp.293-95 (on p.294)<br />Duncan Avenue was a court opening off the eastern side of Gray's Inn Road, between Verulam Street and Baldwin's Gardens and surrounded by light industrial buildings and workers' lodgings; it was destroyed by enemy action during World War Two and no longer exists</ref>
+All the recordings are assumed to have been made in Vocalion's London studio.<ref>This assumption is an extrapolation from the fact that all productions recorded by Vocalion for the [[#National Gramophonic Society|National Gramophonic Society]] were recorded in the company's Duncan Avenue studio, see 'Trade Winds and Idle Zephyrs', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.V No.9, February 1928, pp.366-68 (on p.368); Vocalion quit the premises in 1931, see 'Turn Table Talk', ibid., Vol.IX No.103, December 1931, pp.293-95 (on p.294)<br />Duncan Avenue was a court opening off the eastern side of Gray's Inn Road, between Verulam Street and Baldwin's Gardens and surrounded by light industrial buildings and workers' lodgings; it was destroyed by enemy action during World War Two and no longer exists</ref>
 Vocalion denoted takes by suffixing one or more letters X: no suffix equated to take -1, suffix -X to take -2, suffix -XX to take -3 and so on.

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 The Spencer Dyke String Quartet was formed by [[Spencer Dyke, Edwin (violin)|Edwin Spencer Dyke]] (1880-1946), its first and only leader, from the quartet of his teacher, Hans Wessely (1862-1926):<ref>The Wessely Quartet continued to give concerts for some years thereafter; see e.g. 'Wesleyan Jubilee Celebration', ''Kent and Sussex Courier'', Friday 27 October 1922, p.7</ref> Spencer Dyke moved from violin II to leader, while [[Tomlinson, Ernest (viola)|Ernest Tomlinson]] (1877-1957)<ref>Tomlinson, well-known teacher and viola player in several distinguished quartets including the Spencer Dyke String Quartet, is not to be confused with the composer and conductor <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Tomlinson Ernest Tomlinson]</span> (1924-2015)</ref> remained as viola and [[Parker, Bertie Patterson (cello)|Bertie Patterson Parker]] (1871-1930) as cello, positions they had occupied since 1904.<ref>'Miscellaneous', ''The Musical Times'', Vol.45 No.732, February 1904, p.123</ref> Only [[Quaife, Edwin (violin)|Edwin Quaife]] (1880-1940) was newly recruited, as violin II.
-Reportedly formed in 1918,<ref>e.g. Meadmore, W.S. 'British Performing Organizations', '(2) Present-Day Organizations', in Cobbett, Walter Willson ''Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music'', London: Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1929, pp.203-12; <span class="plainlinks">[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e643bfb0290e49798b5e3913d48a5508 'Mozart']</span> (billing for BBC National Programme broadcast, Thursday 13 July 1939), ''Radio Times'', Vol.64 No.823, 7 July 1939, p.52</ref> the Spencer Dyke Quartet is first documented in 1919,<ref>'Works Performed by the Spencer Dyke String Quartet (1919-1924)', insert in ''Wigmore Hall […], The Spencer Dyke String Quartet First Recital, Monday Evening, February 9th [1925], at 8'' (concert programme), Wigmore Hall Collection, Royal College of Music, London</ref> when it was also the subject of a group portrait.<ref><span class="plainlinks">[https://collections.ram.ac.uk/IMU/#/details/ecatalogue/10649 ''Portrait of the Spencer Dyke Quartet — Spencer Dyke, Edwin Quaife, violins; Ernest Tomlinson viola; Bertie Patterson Parker, cello'']</span> by Isobel Grant Nevill (1872–1968), watercolour on paper, signed 'I. Nevill, 1919', Royal Academy Collections, Object No.2003.1080</ref> Its first public concert to be reviewed in the general press was given on 26 January 1920 at the <span class="plainlinks">[https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/about-us/history Wigmore Hall]</span> in London, playing works by Elgar, <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Aynsley_Goossens Eugene Goossens]</span> [III], Ernest Tomlinson (its viola player), <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bridge Frank Bridge]</span> and Haydn.<ref>'Spencer Dyke String Quartet', in 'Music', ''The Times'', issue 42318, Tuesday 27 January 1920, p.10; 'Spencer Dyke Quartet', ''Pall Mall Gazette'', Tuesday 27 January 1920, p.8</ref> The Quartet enjoyed immediate success, perhaps partly capitalizing on the esteem which Wessely's formation had enjoyed. Spencer Dyke's group went on to perform throughout Britain (unlike Wessely's, it does not seem to have performed abroad). The Quartet collaborated in concert and on disc with well-known soloists, and showed a notable commitment to modern music and to British composers.
+Reportedly formed in 1918,<ref>e.g. Meadmore, W.S. 'British Performing Organizations', '(2) Present-Day Organizations', in Cobbett, Walter Willson ''Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music'', London: Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1929, pp.203-12; <span class="plainlinks">[http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e643bfb0290e49798b5e3913d48a5508 'Mozart']</span> (billing for BBC National Programme broadcast, Thursday 13 July 1939), ''Radio Times'', Vol.64 No.823, 7 July 1939, p.52</ref> the Spencer Dyke Quartet is first documented in 1919,<ref>'Works Performed by the Spencer Dyke String Quartet (1919-1924)', insert in ''Wigmore Hall […], The Spencer Dyke String Quartet First Recital, Monday Evening, February 9th [1925], at 8'' (concert programme), Wigmore Hall Collection, Royal College of Music, London</ref> when it was also the subject of a group portrait.<ref><span class="plainlinks">[https://collections.ram.ac.uk/IMU/#/details/ecatalogue/10649 ''Portrait of the Spencer Dyke Quartet — Spencer Dyke, Edwin Quaife, violins; Ernest Tomlinson viola; Bertie Patterson Parker, cello'']</span> by Isobel Grant Nevill (1872–1968), watercolour on paper, signed 'I. Nevill, 1919', Royal Academy Collections, Object No.2003.1080</ref> On 26 January 1920 it gave its first public concert reviewed in the general press, playing works by Elgar, <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Aynsley_Goossens Eugene Goossens]</span> [III], Ernest Tomlinson (its viola player), <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Bridge Frank Bridge]</span> and Haydn, at the <span class="plainlinks">[https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/about-us/history Wigmore Hall]</span> in London.<ref>'Spencer Dyke String Quartet', in 'Music', ''The Times'', issue 42318, Tuesday 27 January 1920, p.10; 'Spencer Dyke Quartet', ''Pall Mall Gazette'', Tuesday 27 January 1920, p.8</ref> The Quartet enjoyed immediate success, perhaps partly capitalizing on the esteem which Wessely's formation had enjoyed. Spencer Dyke's group went on to perform throughout Britain (unlike Wessely's, it does not seem to have performed abroad). The Quartet collaborated in concert and on disc with well-known soloists, and showed a notable commitment to modern music and to British composers.
-Spencer Dyke had recorded violin 'solos' (i.e. duos with piano) for the British branch of Odeon since the early years of the century.<ref>Spencer Dyke recorded some thirty-eight 10¾" / 27.3 cm sides of salon solos for Odeon between 1905 and approximately 1914, see Langridge, Mike ''British Odeons'', Wells-next-the-Sea: City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society, 2006, pp.78-79; <span class="plainlinks">[https://sounds.bl.uk/related-content/TEXTS/029I-ODEGX1912XXX-0000A0.pdf ''Odeon Records Orange Label Catalogue (…) No.26'']</span>, n.d. [1912?], p.16, lists twelve of these, on six double-sided discs, billed as performed by 'Mr. Spencer Dyke of Queen's Hall [Orchestra]. (With piano accompaniment)'</ref> In a 1928 interview, he described the 'nervy business' of making early ensemble records;<ref>Meadmore, W.S. 'More Gramophone Personalities', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.VI No.67, December 1928, pp.336-40 (on p.340)</ref> these have not been identified. From 1924, the Spencer Dyke Quartet recorded extensively, initially for Vocalion and then, until 1927, for the [[National Gramophonic Society]] (see [[#Discography|below]]). It also broadcast for the BBC from early 1924.<ref>Earliest broadcast identified: <span class="plainlinks">[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/eb32d927bd934c20beb5251689051d5f 'Hours with Living British Composers']</span>, 2LO London, Thursday 28 February 1924</ref>
+Spencer Dyke had recorded violin 'solos' (i.e. duos with piano) for the British branch of Odeon since the early years of the century.<ref>Spencer Dyke recorded some thirty-eight 10¾" / 27.3 cm sides of salon solos for Odeon between 1905 and approximately 1914, see Langridge, Mike ''British Odeons'', Wells-next-the-Sea: City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society, 2006, pp.78-79; <span class="plainlinks">[https://sounds.bl.uk/related-content/TEXTS/029I-ODEGX1912XXX-0000A0.pdf ''Odeon Records Orange Label Catalogue (…) No.26'']</span>, n.d. [1912?], p.16, lists twelve of these, on six double-sided discs, billed as performed by 'Mr. Spencer Dyke of Queen's Hall [Orchestra]. (With piano accompaniment)'</ref> In a 1928 interview, he described the 'nervy business' of making early ensemble records;<ref>Meadmore, W.S. 'More Gramophone Personalities', ''The Gramophone'', Vol.VI No.67, December 1928, pp.336-40 (on p.340)</ref> these have not been identified.<ref>Perhaps the interviewer misunderstood or misrepresented Spencer Dyke's reminiscence of making acoustical recordings of chamber music for Vocalion or the National Gramophonic Society; or, possibly if less probably, Spencer Dyke took part in earlier ensemble recordings which are undocumented</ref> From 1924, the Spencer Dyke Quartet recorded extensively, initially for Vocalion and then, until 1927, for the [[National Gramophonic Society]] (see [[#Discography|below]]). It also broadcast for the BBC from early 1924.<ref>Earliest broadcast identified: <span class="plainlinks">[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/eb32d927bd934c20beb5251689051d5f 'Hours with Living British Composers']</span>, 2LO London, Thursday 28 February 1924</ref>
 In 1927, two founding members left. Quaife, the second violin, resigned through pressure of work, and was replaced by Spencer Dyke's pupil [[Gilder, Harold Tate (violin)|Harold Tate Gilder]] (1899-1963); Tomlinson, the viola player, resigned through ill health, and was replaced by [[Shore, Bernard (viola)|Bernard Shore]] (1896-1985).<ref>Meadmore, W.S. 'More Gramophone Personalities', ''The Gramophone'', Vol. VI No. 67, December 1928, pp.336-40</ref> The new members took part in the Quartet's last recordings, made for the NGS in 1927 and 1928. In 1930, Patterson Parker, the cellist, died.<ref>'Obituary', ''The Musical Times'', Vol.71 No.1053, November 1930,, p.1039; 'In Memoriam B. Patterson Parker, F.R.A.M. 1871-1930', ''The R.A.M. Club Magazine'', No.88, November 1930, p.24</ref> He was replaced by [[Sharpe, Cedric (cello)|Cedric Sharpe]] (1891-1978), who remained in the Quartet until it was disbanded.<ref>Shore, Bernard 'Cedric Sharpe', in <span class="plainlinks">[https://archive.org/details/rcm-magazine-1978-74-3-images/page/n10/mode/1up 'Obituary']</span>, ''Royal College of Music Magazine'', Vol.74 No.3, October 1978, pp.113-21 (on pp.114-16)</ref>

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 '''Bush''', Alan
 *String Quartet in a Op.4
 '''Chausson'''

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 *''Phantasy Quartet'' in f
 *String Quartet No.2 in g
 '''Corder''', Frederick
 *Fantasy for string quartet (performers uncertain)
 '''Debussy'''
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 *Piano Quintet in A Op.81
 *String Quartet in F Op.96
 '''Elgar'''
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 '''Goossens''', Eugene [III]
 *''Two Sketches'' Op.15
 '''Gossec'''
-*''Le Triomphe de la République, ou Le Camp de Grandpré'' [RH.618] (divertissement-lyrique in 1 act) - Tambourin, arranged '''Sharpe'''
+*''Le Triomphe de la République, ou Le Camp de Grandpré'' [RH.618] (divertissement-lyrique in 1 act) - Tambourin, arranged '''Sharpe''', Cedric
 '''Grainger'''
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 '''Jacob''', Gordon
 *String Quartet in C (1928)
 '''Kreisler'''