String octet

Well, I identify it as, uh, one of my transcriptions.

Beautiful work, um, by Debussy called Sarabande, originally for piano, and this is for string octet.

Um, uh, it was from a piece called Pour le Piano, which is really like fighting the wind.

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The first two pieces are rather dark in color.

Anyway, the final, uh, work you're gonna hear right now, um, is from a, um, a May concert, I think it was a couple years ago.

Um, it's the finale of the absolutely wonderful Mendelssohn String Octet, um, which he wrote at some ungodly age, like 15.

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