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Kunc - Lhotka - Slavenski: String Quartets / Sebastian String Quartet
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Kunc - Lhotka - Slavenski: String Quartets / Sebastian String Quartet

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Details

Composer
KUNC LHOTKA SLAVENSKI
Artist
SEBASTIAN STRING QUARTET
Format
CD
Label
CPO
Released
Aug 14, 2020
Catalog #
555297-2
UPC
761203529728

About

Music from the Sebastian String Quartet’s native Croatia, by Croatian composers or by composers who spent a significant part of their careers in Croatia, forms a special focus in this ensemble’s work. Bozidar Kunc was one of the most distinguished Croatian composers of the twentieth century as well as an extraordinary pianist who was known as “the Croatian poet of the piano.” His only String Quartet very freely treats tonality, expands its space through the linking of instrumental parts, and often uses them as a colorful backdrop for melodies full of imaginative aspiration in which traces of folkloristic idiom sometimes come into view. Kunc’s deftly articulated and richly colored string sound reveals a composer of a unique individuality. The Czech composer Fran Lhotka exercised a strong influence on the Croatian music scene for more than fifty years. He brought the best Czech traditions to Croatia and fit so perfectly into the environment of his new home that it hardly would be possible to discuss the national musical movement that arose in Croatia during the first half of the twentieth century without mentioning his name. Lhotka’s captivating Elegy and Scherzo proves to be a fascinating work with contrasting themes invented in the spirit of folk music. Josip Štolcer Slavenski compiled one of the most interesting and most unusual life’s works that Croatian music of the twentieth century has to offer. This enthusiastic innovator was interested in a great many things and open to the most recent musical events in Europe even though he was absorbed in his own world. He composed powerful and unconventional works without direct models or formal and stylistic determinants. In 1938 he wrote his fourth and last Quartet to Balkan dance music and with highly varied and finely crafted themes.

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 I. Con molta vivacita 06:31
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Con molta vivacita
    Duration
    06:31
    Composer
    Božidar Kunc
    Ensemble
    Sebastian String Quartet
  2. 2 II. Lento molto e con espressione 08:27
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Lento molto e con espressione
    Duration
    08:27
    Composer
    Božidar Kunc
    Ensemble
    Sebastian String Quartet
  3. 3 III. Introduzione - Allegro ma non troppo 13:06
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Introduzione - Allegro ma non troppo
    Duration
    13:06
    Composer
    Božidar Kunc
    Ensemble
    Sebastian String Quartet
  4. 4 Elegie 08:11
    Track
    4
    Title
    Elegie
    Duration
    08:11
    Composer
    Fran Lhotka
    Ensemble
    Sebastian String Quartet
  5. 5 Scherzo 05:03
    Track
    5
    Title
    Scherzo
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Fran Lhotka
    Ensemble
    Sebastian String Quartet
  6. 6 I. Allegro molto energico 02:17
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. Allegro molto energico
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    Josip Slavenski
    Ensemble
    Sebastian String Quartet
  7. 7 II. Largo cantabile 05:09
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Largo cantabile
    Duration
    05:09
    Composer
    Josip Slavenski
    Ensemble
    Sebastian String Quartet
  8. 8 III. Allegro molto vivace 02:13
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Allegro molto vivace
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Josip Slavenski
    Ensemble
    Sebastian String Quartet
  9. 9 IV. Grave 05:29
    Track
    9
    Title
    IV. Grave
    Duration
    05:29
    Composer
    Josip Slavenski
    Ensemble
    Sebastian String Quartet