Richard Pennycuick wrote concerning Mendelssohn:

>I wondered if Don had explored the string quartets which, in at least some,
>have a lot more emotion than some of his music does.

I have explored them, and they left me untouched.  I did feel "something"
when listening to his string quintets, but that might have been the
movement of a kidney stone.

>I'll be surprised if he hasn't but there must be *some* string
>quartets he hasn't heard yet!:-)

There are a large number of string quartets I'm not familar with; it's a
mighty large playing field.  I currently have string quartets on order from
Tobias, Tansman, Miaskovsky, and Langgaard.  I'll get there some day, and
Dave's post of a few weeks ago listing all the string quartets of the 20th
century of value to him gave me additional initiative to reach that goal.

Don Satz
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