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SO difficult because I like so many quartet movements from Beethoven and Bartok but if push comes to shove it has to be the opening movement of Beethoven's Op 131 Quartet in C# minor. It's a fugue. I first heard it recorded by the Fine Arts Quartet. Why I choose this is that it converted me utterly to the possibility of the String Quartet as a medium of musical expression.

Thanks a lot for all your help comments and kind remarks. First I was hesitant about releasing the song but when I heard your comments, especially Papagenos about the melody (which I will never forget), I decided to have it recorded. What I realised here was that the oboe-melody that I actually wrote 2013 was so low in register that I could rather had written it for English horn, since it's much easier to keep the intonation in higher register. This wednesday we released it on YouTube. Enjoy: