Martinu: String Trio; Piano Quartet; String Quintet

Advantages: Haunting, passionate music to get lost in.
Disadvantages: It's classical and this puts people off before they even try it.

...anything else interrupt it - particularly something as mundane as housework. Floon and I are obviously not alone in finding the quintet special. This music has aroused the passions of many and the notes say” Many musicians have spoken in awe of its spiritual Elysianism, including the pianist Artur Rubinstein (who requested the slow movement be played at his funeral), the great nineteenth-century cellist Alfredo Piatti (who asked for it to be played during his dying hours to send him into the next world), and the renowned quartet leader John Saunders who had the opening seven bars of the first movement’s second subject inscribed on his tombstone above the following Shakespearian quotation (Sonnet XVIII): So long as man can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. String Quintet in C Major, D956 (1828... Read review

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Advantages: Great well known strings.
Disadvantages: Suck with tone towards the end of their life.

...INTRODUCTION: First off these are guitar strings for electric guitars, acoustic guitars ( that are amplified to become electoacoustics with similar circuitry as electric guitars) But not classical guitars, with Nylon strings :-) As with all products these days, a review on just plain old " Ernie Ball Strings " is very wide and open ! So I will be basing mine on use with the following products only. Nickel ( not the brighter / treble accenting steel ones !!! ) wound electric guitar strings "SUPER SLINKY" ( "9's " / "9-42" ) 9, 11, 16, 24, 32, 42. "REGULAR SLINKY" ( "10's " / "10-46" ) 10, 13, 17, 26, 36, 46. "SLINKY TOP HEAVY BOTTOM" ( "10-52" ) 10, 13, 17, 30, 42, 52. EXPLAINATION TIME : Right not a lot of that above will mean much to non-guitarists, or beginners so I... Read review

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Advantages: Music to take you beyond this world
Disadvantages: Needs a bit of patience

...-one years he wrote around a thousand works, including the very well known Unfinished Symphony and the Trout Quintet (for five instruments ? piano and strings), named after a song he wrote (The Trout) which is used as the basis for a set of variations. His special gift was for writing good tunes ? some have been turned into popular songs ? and this makes his music easily approachable. Sadly, most of his works requiring more than a handful of players were never heard in his lifetime, not even the String Quintet, which is surely one of the most sublime, other-worldly pieces of music ever written. ******The String Quintet?****** I intend to approach this work from a personal, emotional standpoint rather than use musical jargon. It?s not necessary to understand harmony or musical structure to enjoy any music. The composer needs to... Read review

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