What we suspect might have happened Mr. Watson is that you tried the phrase without quotation marks, and that is why you got a lot of not particularly relevant results. If you enter "variations on a theme of Mahler" into the Google search box including the quotation marks at either end, then at least in our case it gives only five results, of which the first and the fourth specify Klusak. The quotation marks mean "look only for a phrase containing the words in this order" or something like that we think; give it a try and let us know if it works!

Dash it!  I heard this clip and thought, "I know that".  I even said "Bartok" to myself.  But could I drag the title from the back of my mind....?  No.  I really should re-acquaint myself with my old LPs.

Tommo

Thank you Mr Grew. This is just to say that - following our 'nuptial ceremony' yesterday ( ) - I shall be spending some time with my other half in Paris from tomorrow until Friday. I expect therefore that when I return I shall see that my position in the Points Table has (rightly and justly) been overtaken by several other Members who, for some time, have been close on my heels! Have fun!

Baz

Why, thank you kindly, various Mr Fragments. So that really was 'just' a string quartet playing there.

Gosh! Extraordinary and rather wonderful .

Thanks!

As representative as anything. He's very hard to define, and I'm not the expert. Ian Pace would know better. Or you could just ask Richard (see below).

(wasn't sure which thread to post this in, so I've posted it in both)

I'm very pleased some members are interested to know more about Walter Zimmermann's music. As well as the discs Richard mentions, there is also a disc on Wergo of his stage works Singbarer Rest and Die Blinden (this Maeterlinck text has also been set by Beat Furrer). As mentioned, I have recorded his piano works (up to 1998); I feel Wüstenwanderung is the finest of these. It has also been recorded by Daniel Seel (on a recital disc on Hat Art) and Hermann Kretzchmar (on one of the Mode discs), and has been taken up by other pianists including Philip Thomas and Heather O'Donnell. His longest piano work Beginner's Mind is on my discs, and also on an old LP by Herbert Henck - an excellent performance (pianistically, at least - without making any claims for my own singing (quite out of tune), I think the intonation there holds its own against Henck's ) well worth getting. Recently his music has become more eclectic; I'm not sure quite where this is leading, but the results remain interesting.

Walter's other string quartet, Festina Lente, is recorded on the Arditti's 'For Germany' disc (which also contains Mathias Spahlinger's fantastic quartet Apo do). This work is known colloquially amngst the quartet as 'The Rack', because of the agonising unisons they have to maintain for long stretches of time.

Lokale Musik has never been released complete on CD (some sections are available on the RCA Musik aus Deutschland series, though). There were informal ideas of Metier re-releasing it, but this hasn't yet materialised.

Burnout, I suspect; but also finding the right "difficulty level" for these snatches has proven elusive.

99% of the snatches I hear I cannot guess at all, and am only helped by Google and the Apple Itunes store; that can't possibly be the point of this endeavor.