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天堂降下的小確幸(橫跨300年弦樂四重奏名曲集)
曼德林四重奏

"Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven. Don't you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven? You'll find your fortune's fallin' all over the town. Be sure that your umbrella is upside down. Trade them fora package of sunshine and flowers..." (from: Lyrics to Pennies from Heaven by Johnny Burke)

Small treasures, as promised by the song Pennies from Heaven in the eponymous 1936 film with Bing Crosby, are assembled on the latest release from the Mandelring Quartett: favourites, individual movements and encores which the Mandelring Quartett regularly play in concert, but also works which don't fit into - or at the end of - standard concert programmes and are therefore presented on this album. Whether classical or non-classical, original works or felicitous arrangements for string quartet: all pieces are much loved by the ensemble. After spending weeks searching through their music archives, accumulated over more than thirty years, and sifting out the highlights from a huge body of works, the Mandelring Quartett now present a colourful mixture of miniatures from diverse genres across the centuries. They include rarely played compositions of the classical repertoire, such as a movement from the very first string quartet by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; pieces which the Mandelring Quartett like to play as encores, such as the Allegretto, which Dmitri Shostakovich distilled from his ballet The Golden Age; tango classics such as Cafetín de Buenos Aires, stylishly arranged by Werner Thomas-Mifune; earworm candidates such as the Andante cantabile from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's String Quartet in D major; trouvailles such as the adaptation of the St. Louis Blues, which the violinist Sebastian Schmidt discovered whilst on tour in the US when he visited a music shop in Los Angeles in order to buy a music stand because his suitcase had been lost.

This compilation combines "Pennies from Heaven" from highly diverse musical spheres into a musical treasure trove - and at the same time presents the Mandelring Quartett at their most personal.

FRITZ KREISLER
1. Miniature Viennese March (03:07)
String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, K. 156 (03:01)
2. I. Presto (03:01)
ARTHUR JOHNSTON
3. Pennies from Heaven (04:02)
ANTONIN DVORAK
4. Waltz in A Major, Op. 54 No. 1 (03:30)
MARIANO MORES
5. Cafetin de Buenos Aires (03:34)
FELICIEN DAVID
String Quartet in A Major (03:18)
6. Scherzo. Allegretto (03:18)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
String Quartet No. 1 in G Major, K. 80 (04:08)
7. I. Adagio (04:08)
ALEXANDER BORODIN
String Quartet No. 2 in D Major (04:51)
8. II. Scherzo. Allegro (04:51)
ENRIQUE FRANCINI
9. La vi llegar (03:11)
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 (06:24)
10. II. Andante cantabile (06:24)
LEROY ANDERSON
11. The Syncopated Clock (02:06)
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
The Golden Age, Op. 22 (02:10)
12. Polka (Allegretto) (02:10)
ANTONIN DVORAK
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96 'American' (06:09)
13. II. Lento (06:09)
STEVIE WONDER
14. Sir Duke (02:55)
JOSEPH HAYDN
String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33 No. 3 'The Bird' (02:58)
15. IV. Finale: Rondo – Presto (02:58)
JUAN CRISOSTOMO DE ARRIAGA
String Quartet No. 1 in D Minor (03:16)
16. III. Menuetto (03:16)
HECTOR VARELA
17. El 58 (02:55)
WILLIAM C. HANDY
18. St. Louis Blues (04:45)