Bernard Chasan wrote: On this basis I acquired a cd of two Braunfels string >quartets, written in the mid forties. This is interesting music - the >notes with the cd compare the first quartet to Bartok, while the staff >recommendation described it as Brucknerian. Check out Braunfels' opera Der Vogel. Gorgeous in the lush, post-Straussian manner. My wife was virtually hypnotized by it. Roger Hecht