London String Quartet

The London String Quartet was a string quartet founded in London in 1908 by Charles Warwick Evans (cello), Harry Waldo Warner (viola), Albert Sammons (1st violin) & Thomas W. Petre (2nd violin), which remained one of the leading English chamber groups into the 1930s, and made several well-known recordings. Warwick Evans and William Primrose enhanced its reputation during the 1930s in the United States. In 1958, Warwick Evans passed on the title to the cellist Douglas Cameron, the name at last finding its way back to London. Carl Pini himself led the quartet from 1960 until 1968.