Piccolo Quintet composer. Piccolo Quintet was recorded in 2007 by Gudrun Hinze and other members of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig on a CD "piccolo concert", together with Allan Stephenson's "Concertino" for piccolo, strings and harpsichord, Mike Mower's "Sonata" for piccolo and piano, Vivaldi's "Concerto" for flautino in C major, RV 443, and Erwin Schulhoff's "Concertino" for flute, viola and double Bass. Piccolo Quintet Piccolo Quintet is short for the Quintet op. 26 of Graham Waterhouse, composed in 1989 for piccolo and string quartet and published by Zimmermann in 2002 as Quintet for piccolo, 2 violins, viola and violoncello. In 1989 the composer Graham
String section String section The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family. It normally consists of first and second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses (or basses). It is the most numerous group in the typical Classical orchestra. In discussions of the instrumentation of a musical work, the phrase "the strings" or "and strings" is used to indicate a string section as just defined. An orchestra consisting solely of a string section is called a string orchestra. Smaller string sections are sometimes used in jazz, pop and rock music and in the pit orchestras of musical theatre.