Much has been written on historic recordings of orchestral, vocal and instrumental music but far less research has been done on early chamber music recordings. The first batch of chamber music recordings made before 1925 are now online and one performing group, The Philharmonic String Quartet, has been chosen because their discs are rare and difficult to find. Indeed, a number of these discs were only acquired very recently in a donation from the estate of conductor Eugene Goossens who played second violin in the group at the beginning of his career.  The other original members of the group were Arthur Beckwith (violin), Raymond Jeremy (viola) and Cedric Sharpe (cello); all were born around 1890, so when the quartet was formed in 1915 they were in their mid-twenties.