Thomas Christian Ensemble - String Quartets 4 & 6 - Intermezzi [CD] UK "Here in America

"Here in America

11th July 1983 - FM Broadcast / Echo & The Bunnymen recording from 1983

bassist Jack Myers

Goodbye Town

Thomas Christian Ensemble - String Quartets 4 & 6 - Intermezzi [CD] UK "Here in AmericaAny close engagement with the later works of the Austrian composer Karl Weigl soon and almost inevitably becomes an exercise in tracing origins. Driven into American exile by the delusions of a self proclaimed master race, he, like many of his contemporaries, remained so firmly bound to his cultural roots that a nostalgic backward glance across the Atlantic becomes perceptible even where his music ventures into comparatively advanced musical language.