Haas • Krása: String Quartets / Streichquartette

Hawthorne String Quartet

1993: London/Polygram 440 853-2

Pavel Haas   1899–1944
String Quartet No. 2 “Z opičích hor,” op. 7 (1925)
From the Monkey Mountains / Aus dem Affengebirge

1. I.   Andante “Krajina”
   Landscape / Landschaft
2. II.   Andante “Kočá, kočí a kůň”
   Horse, cart, and driver / Pferd, Kutsche, und Kutscher
3. III.   Largo e misterioso “Měsíc a já”
   The Moon and I / Der Mond und Ich
4. IV.   Vivace e con fuoco—Andante—Tempo I “Divá noc”
   A Wild Night / Eine wilde Nacht

   
   String Quartet No. 3, op. 15 (1938)

5. I.   Allegro moderato
6. II.   Lento, ma non troppo e poco rubato
7. III.   Thema con variazioni e fuga: Con moto—Allegro vivace

   
   Hans Krása   1899–1944
   String Quartet (1921)

8. I.   Moderato
9. II.   Prestissimo—Molto calmo—Volgare
10. III.   Molto lento e tranquillo

This CD is a bit of an enigma to me, as part of my library, because I recall only that I obtained it after encountering Haas’s tantalizing “From the Monkey Mountains” track on a Decca-label compilation CD with the theme or title of “Entarte Musik” but mysteriously no longer have the initiating CD in my collection! Perhaps I found the rest of its contents unengaging once I’d bought this CD for that one track; I really don’t recall, and that surprises me…usually I remember stuff like that, and the historian in me would very rarely jettison such contextually rich material.

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