Janet Hyde ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Here in South Africa etv is currently airing a British television programme
>called "Waiting for God" - a sitcom.  The signature tune sounds very much
>like a piano quartet, and is played by the Nash Ensemble.  Does anyone know
>who composed this piece of music, and was it written specially for the
>programme or not?

It is the opening of the finale to Schubert's Piano Quintet in A D664
(?), (much) better known as The Trout.

Deryk Barker
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 [The Nash's recording of the Trout Quintet is available on IMP (Carlton)
 Classics 6701822 (PCD868).  -Dave]