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