Hector Aguilar wrote: >Hello Everyone, Until this morning I had never heard of this composer, but >the overture to his opera Los Esclavos Felices, or The Happy Slave, caught >my ear as I was driving to work. ... My question is, does anyone have >any specific recordings they would recommend of this impressive composer? I would recommend Arriaga's Complete String Quartets(3) on MDG 603 0236 (74 minutes) by the Voces String Quartet. It was reviewed in American Record Guide in Sept/Oct.2000. He wrote these three quartets when he was 18 years old. Dave Gustafson, Moline,Illinois.