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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Sharkkb8 on Tuesday 21 April 2020, 05:39

Title: Croatian string quartets from cpo
Post by: Sharkkb8 on Tuesday 21 April 2020, 05:39
Just received my "jpc eCourier" email, mentioning an upcoming cd from cpo, with three Croatian string quartets.  It appears likely that two of the three will be inappropriate for this forum, but a 1909 (or 1911?) composition by one Fran Lhotka (who has been mentioned a few times here, over the years), might be.  Links to the recording, and to Lhotka's Wikipedia page below.

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/bozidar-kunc-sebastian-string-quartet-kroatische-streichquartette/hnum/9254307 (https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/bozidar-kunc-sebastian-string-quartet-kroatische-streichquartette/hnum/9254307)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Lhotka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran_Lhotka)
Title: Re: Croatian string quartets from cpo
Post by: Christopher on Tuesday 21 April 2020, 12:01
The other composers on the CD are Josip Stolcer-Slavenski (1896-1955) and Bozidar, er, Kunc (1903-1964)...
Title: Re: Croatian string quartets from cpo
Post by: Alan Howe on Tuesday 21 April 2020, 16:18
Let's concentrate here on Lhotka, please.
Title: Re: Croatian string quartets from cpo
Post by: Santo Neuenwelt on Tuesday 21 April 2020, 16:39
To bad they did not include Wismer von Morgenstern
Title: Re: Croatian string quartets from cpo
Post by: eschiss1 on Tuesday 21 April 2020, 17:31
IIRC Lhotka wrote a string quartet in G minor (1911), but I don't think that's what's on the recording (nor has it been commercially recorded, if memory serves? Will have to double-check, sorry...)
Title: Re: Croatian string quartets from cpo
Post by: Gareth Vaughan on Tuesday 21 April 2020, 17:41
Lhotka wrote a Violin Concerto and a Piano Concerto. I have located copies of the full score of the VC, but not the PC.