Bernard Chasan <[log in to unmask]> 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. I vote for Bruckner - some >wonderful romantic passages, reminiscent of Bruckner's one complete (?) >chamber work, but you can here rhythmic echoes of the Hungarian master as >well. As I say, interesting - and I did not get anything like that hollow >feeling which sometimes follows first listens to impulse purchases, that I >will never listen to THAT one again. A pity indeed if you will not listen to it again. His stringquartetts are very good ones, trust me, of great brilliance and depth, and also he composed an opera: "Die Voegel" (after Aristofanes), which also is worth listening too. I hear not so much Bartok in Braunfels, a little though, but Bruckner, but also Wagner and Strauss. Mats Norrman [log in to unmask]