Tim Mahon mentioned Laura Lombardini Sirmen, a classical-era composer.
Close to ten years ago, I acquired a Cala disc of six string quartets by
Sirmen.  I played it a few times, but it just kept sounding worse: much
too simple and repetitive.  It's possible she wrote other works of higher
quality, but my Schwann Opus only shows the Cala; I'm surprised it's still
in print and also listed at CDNOW.

She's not a composer and I have no idea what her personal preferences are,
but I'm listening right now to Susan Sheppard's baroque cello recording of
Bach's Cello Suites on Metronome; I hope it sounds better on my primary
audio system.  It's hard to write a posting without mentioning a recording.

Don Satz
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