The Law Of The Quadrille Is Clear (Songs After Franz Kafka) / String Quartet No 3

Recorded at the Concert Hall, Cambridge, on 19 and 20 June 1982, with financial assistance from the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust. Song texts and English translations supplied on a one-page insert. German text 1953 by Schocken Books Inc., New York Extracts from the Third and Fifth Octavo Notebook reprinted from Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande und andere Prosa by permission of Schocken Books Inc. Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins English translation 1954 by Schocken Books Inc., New York, reprinted from Dearest Father by Franz Kafka by permission of Schocken Books, Inc. (Dearest Father is included in Wedding Preparations in the Country, Secker and Warburg, London, 1953) Sleeve notes (Anthony Burton, Julian Rushton) and artist biographies (insert) translated into German by Ken Bartlett. Front cover: photograph of "Head of Franz Kafka" by the Czech-born Israeli sculptor Dan Kulka (1938-1979). Photograph of composer by Misha Donat on sleeve verso. Runouts have hand-etched stylised "HA" and the rest is impressed (side identifiers have been struck through and reversed).