Piano Quintet No. 1; String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5 CD

Piano Quintet No. 1;  String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5;  Peter Schickele, The Audubon Quartet (Centaur CRC 2505):  A collection of American music for String Quartet with and without piano.  Features the Quintet No. 1 for Piano and Strings, String Quartet No. 1 “American Dreams,” and String Quartet No. 5 “A Year in the Country.”  Performers Peter Schickele, piano David Ehrlich, violin Akemi Takayama, violin Doris Lederer, viola Clyde Shaw, cello Track Listing String Quartet No. 1 “American Dreams” (Peter Schickele) [1]  I  Opening Diptych [2]  II  Four Studies [3]  III  Music at Dawn [4]  IV  Dance Music [5]  V  Closing Diptych Quintet No. 1 for Piano and Strings (Peter Schickele) [6]  I  Prelude [7]  II  Intermezzo [8]  III Elegy [9]  IV  Finale String Quartet No. 5 “A Year in the Country” (Peter Schickele) [10]  I  Spring Dawn [11]  II  Birds [12]  III  Bugs [13]  IV  At John Burroughs’ Grave in Roxbury [14]  V  Leaves [15]  VI  Three Fiddles [16]  VII  By the Ashokan [17]  VII