Bax’s Third String Quartet, his last, was written for the Griller Quartet in the summer of 1936. It was started and finished in London, while the scherzo and trio were written in Ireland and are suffused with high romantic sensibility evoked by Kenmare. The Lyrical Interlude is a re-scoring, with two violas instead of cellos, of the slow movement of a String Quintet written before the First World War, and at one time presumed lost. The Adagio ma non troppo (Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan) is the slow movement of his String Quartet in E written while Bax was a student at the Royal Academy of Music. Once again the Irish influence is strong, with a quotation from W. B. Yeats’s early poem To Ireland in the Coming Times at the head of the movement.