2, is the common name of a piece of chamber music by Benjamin Britten, a quartet for oboe and string trio composed in 1932.
In the composer's catalogue, it is given as Phantasy, subtitled: Quartet in one movement for oboe, violin, viola, violoncello.
Britten composed Phantasy Quartet at age 18 as a student at the Royal College of Music,[3] after his first work to which he assigned an Opus number, the Sinfonietta for chamber orchestra.
[4] He dedicated it to the oboist Léon Goossens, who played the first performance in a BBC broadcast on 6 August 1933,[3][5] with members of the International String Quartet.
The musicologist Eric Roseberry summarises: "If the pastoral slow section echoes the leisurely folkiness of an Englishry that Britten had not yet entirely rejected, the Phantasy as a whole generates a tension and harmonic grittiness which are harbingers of a less complacent outlook.