Dessoff chamber music

[eschiss1]

I was able to stream the Antes quartet/quintet recording over Naxos Music Library (I have a subscription through IMSLP) so I am guessing that recording at least might be purchasable still in some form, but I absolutely don't know about the other ...

But you ask if Audite which produced, I think, the other recording you mention (not the one with the piano sonata- that's a 3rd recording still, I know) is defunct? I receive monthly emails from them...

(Unless you do mean the label that produces the recording with the piano sonata, as I'm now guessing you do. Hrm. Ok, sorry, I did misunderstand, of course. That would take some serious looking into...)

[eschiss1]

Worldcat only lists recordings from Fantasia Classics from 2001 and 2002, and alternately lists a recording as also associated with Joachim Draheim (born 1950, Berlin) and Gabriele Starke (poss. born ca.1970/dissertation 1993 on Gertrud Baumer?), both at the time working in Stuttgart (Starke in turn was also associated with SWR2 radio).

[Alan Howe]

It's the Fantasia Classics CD we're talking about, Eric. After all, it contains the Piano Sonata and a String Quartet unavailable anywhere else.

[eschiss1]

To be clear, the Draheim/Starke label = Fantasia Classics, according to Worldcat... they were the people associated with that label during what may have been its brief existence?, if I understand. I was not very clear (and that's even if I understood correctly). They may be the people to contact about it.

[Alan Howe]

Gabriele Starke is evidently a "Tonmeisterin" (sound engineer) working for SWR2 Musik (Südwestrundfunk - South West Radio), in Stuttgart. That would explain a lot - according to LinkedIn she has worked there since 1996. Joachim Draheim would appear to be a musical editor of some sort.