Rather original sounding, I thought:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/streichquartette-3-5/hnum/11012444
Oh, this is good. Del Campo's string quartets are fine pieces of music; here's a good live performance of the first. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lvu0YWNsKk)
I think that of all the Spanish composers of his time, he was among the more successful in integrating Spanish music into a more cosmopolitan musical idiom. He clearly knew what was going on north of the border and in Germany, and he rarely if ever descended into the kind of cliché that others were guilty of. Later in his career, he moved to neoclassicism, which led to less successful results in my view.
The fact that his music has been so forgotten may also have something to do with his enthusiastic support for Franco (https://journals.openedition.org/amnis/1195) in the Spanish Civil War and subsequently his Dubois-like status as a musical reactionary in the 1940s and 1950s. But as in Dubois' case, that does little to diminish the quality of his earlier works.
SQ1 is fabulous, Ilja. Thanks ever so much for posting the link.
Quote from: Alan Howe on Monday 29 August 2022, 10:08SQ1 is fabulous, Ilja. Thanks ever so much for posting the link.
Yes, indeed. And beautifully played, I think.