String Quintet (Schubert) Jarmusch's "The Limits of Control". Also, Episode 21 from the Inspector Morse television series ("Dead on Time") draws extensively from this quintet, as does Episode 16 ("Lazaretto") of its prequel Endeavour, and certain episodes in Desmond Morris's BBC series "The Human Animal". Schubert's string quintet has often been recorded. The first recording was made by the Cobbett Quartet in 1925. Two recordings from the early 1950s are widely cited as legendary: a 1952 performance featuring Isaac Stern and Alexander Schneider, violins; Milton Katims, viola; and Pablo Casals and Paul Tortelier, cellos; and a 1951 performance by the Hollywood String Quartet
String Quintet No. 1 (Brahms) String Quintet No. 1 (Brahms) Johannes Brahms' String Quintet No. 1 in F major, op. 88, was composed in 1882 in the spa town of Bad Ischl, Upper Austria, and published by the firm of Fritz Simrock. It was first performed at a chamber music evening in Frankfurt-on-Main on 29 December 1882. It is a "viola quintet" in that it is scored for string quartet with a second viola. Brahms composed the work in three movements: Brahms described the quintet to his friend Clara Schumann as "one of [his] finest works" and told Simrock, "You have never before had such