Customer Reviews for Cole Porter Album: Volume 1 for String Quartet

3 star rating

Anonymous

Location: from Gloucester, UK

Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced

April 24, 2009

Good arrangement, bad orchestration

These arrangements of the Cole Porter songs are great and really swing. However, the orchestration gives the bulk of the melodies to the first violin and the other members of the quartet hardly get a look in. In particular the cello part for "I've got you under my skin" consists of repeated phrases for the first 46 bars - almost as bad as Pachelbel's famous canon.

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