Richard Pennycuick ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Don Satz wrote:
>
>>... Mendelssohn's music has never made an impact on me
>
>Sometimes you can admire the skill but it seems a bit showy, too much
>makeup perhaps.  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'll be surprised if he hasn't but there must be *some* string quartets
>he hasn't heard yet!:-)

The quartets and quintets and, above all of course, that miraculous
masterpiece of prodigy, the octet.  One of the few pieces of music which,
to me, seems 'perfect', in the sense that any change would lessen it.
(The 'Trout' is another, for me)

Deryk Barker
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