{"product_id":"pennies-from-heaven-various-pennies-from-heaven-various-music-cd-4022143977861","title":"Pennies From Heaven \/ Various - Pennies From Heaven \/ Various - Music CD","description":"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 Quartet: favorites, individual movements and encores which the Mandelring Quartet 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 Quartet now present a colorful 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 Quartet like to play as encores, such as the Allegretto, which Dmitri Shostakovich distilled from his ballet The Golden Age; tango classics such as Cafetn de Buenos Aires, stylishly arranged by Werner Thomas-Mifune; earworm candidates such as the Andante cantabile from Piotr 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 Quartet at their most personal.","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42314118889547,"sku":"AUDT97786.2","price":27.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7223\/1499\/files\/3862586-2610415_4ee19374-5ba4-4bf5-a3c5-162a40b4de14.jpg?v=1775756660","url":"https:\/\/rockbandmerch.com\/products\/pennies-from-heaven-various-pennies-from-heaven-various-music-cd-4022143977861","provider":"Rock Band Merch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}