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Schoenberg's Notes for the Original 78's: (of the 1st. String Quartet) There will not be many people today who would understand the opposition which this work provoked at its first performance in Vienna February 5, 1907. Nevertheless, with a retrospective glance at the time in question, it is comprehensible. First its unusual length. It is composed in one very long movement, without the conventional interruptions after each movement. Influenced by Beethoven's C-Sharp-Minor-Quartet, by Liszt's Piano Sonata, Bruckner's and Gustav Mahler's Symphonies, we young composers believed this to be the artistic way to compose.....

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At the beginning of his first Norton Lecture, Leonard Bernstein explained the importance of "inter-disciplinary values - that the best way to 'know' a thing is in the context of another discipline." In these six lectures, Bernstein communicated his ideas of the universality of musical language through wide-ranging analogies to linguistics, aesthetic philosophy, acoustics as well as music history. However, while many of his ideas are intellectually challenging, the great achievement of the lectures is that through their breadth they make complex musical concepts accessible to a general audience.

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Notes from the booklet by Tully Potter: Of all the chamber ensembles that rose from the ashes of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kolisch Quartet has the most exotic reputation, because it was closely associated with Schoenberg, Webern and Berg Yet in spite of this identification with the Second School of Viennese School and its echt Wienerisch style of playing, it was never entirely Viennese....

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Music Festival created by Rudolf Serkin The Marlboro Festival: Since its founding in 1951, Marlboro has transformed the world of chamber music and played a pivotal role in developing generations of new musical leaders. Marlboro was created by eminent pianist Rudolf Serkin - its Artistic Director until his death in 1991 - and co-founders Adolf Busch, Herman Busch and Marcel, Blanche and Luis Moyse....

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From the Notes: The string quartets founded or led by Rudolf Kolisch stand out from other quartets by a special quality: They belong to the history of the Second Viennese School. This is no accidental quality, caused by mere biographical coincidence; it is an audible one, a musical quality - and not only when listening to contemporary music. ...

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Notes from the Booklet: ..... Lipatti's star still shines on us today, and its light is brighter than ever. The reasons are not all strictly musical. "The greatness of the early genius", "the Saint amongst pianists", and other adulatory haloes are still uttered today, obscuring the truth more than anything else. Such misunderstandings emanate from his very limited discography, which led some critics to conclude that Lipatti had learned and mastered but two piano concertos and one recital. The truth is rather different, however: Lipatti performed in public 23 different works for piano and orchestra, and his repertoire contined six complete piano recital programmes. A separate list in this booklet show how extensive his repertoire really was....." [lines by Marc Gertsch/Werner Unger and translated by Mark Ainley]

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From the Notes by Mike Ashman "....1968, a year of political turmoil in the world, began for Klemperer with a recording of the Dresden version of Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer. After further London concerts (including Mahler's Ninth), he came to Vienna in May for a series of five Sunday morning programmes, ranging from Bach to Stravinsky, including two works (Bruckner's Fifth ad Petrushka) from his first-ever season with the orchestra [1933]. 'There was some wonderful music making, and the tapesof the concerts confirm the quality of our work together'...[from bassist and music historian, Alfred Planyavsky]"

In 1968 Klemperer was 83 years old....