Audio-only DVD recording with double bass soloist Tom Peters performing Hanne Darboven's Wunschkonzerte : Opera 17 & 18, A & B. "Hanne Darboven s compositions for double bass, Opera 17A & B, and Opera 18A & B (1983), also known as her Wunschkonzerte, evoke a media form so out of step with today s flexible iPod culture that they require a quick excursion into radio history. I remember it well: turning on the state-monopoly radio channel on Monday nights for the weekly wish concert , a programme where listeners chose songs to celebrate the birthdays of family members or friends. The show went from children s songs through marches, religious songs and adult schmaltz to finally a few pop hits at the end, to mark the birthday of some lucky teenager. In the very rigidity of its offering the steadfast weekly timing, the strict division of age groups music was used to mark time in a different way from the usual internal musical organization of rhythm and tempo. Here music marked the temporalities of life itself or, more precisely, the organization and control of life-time so important to modern government and capital alike. ..." -- review by Ina Blom, "frieze," Issue 109 (September 2007).