Stirling, while recommending 20th Cent. Quartets, speaks of Krasna: >Krasna's sound world was one of many that took impressionism and inverted, >in a manner similar to young Bartok's. But given the comparison, Krasna is >better at it that Bartok was, and his modalities more striking in their >ability to depcit shimmering darkness, as a mirror of Debussy's French >Light. and Haas: >Instead, it was a vocabulary oif his own invention, inspired by the work >of Janacek. I don't know Stirling, I would have enjoyed these pieces much more had I never heard Debussy or Janacek. As with most of the Entartete Music Series, I get very frustrated because although these neglected composers usually deliver stylistically, what they *do* with the material is another story, especially when there styles constantly remind the ear of masters such as Janacek and Debussy. John Smyth, back from vacation!