At the invitation of the Croatian Radio, Krešimir Starčević recorded the piano piece “Three Choral Preludes” by the Croatian composer Dubravko Detoni for the Radio Archive on June 15, 2023!
The work was recorded in the “Mozart” studio of the Croatian Radiotelevision, with the producer Pero Mihojević, and the recording engineer Emir Altić.
Here is what composer himself wrote about the work:
“The Three Chorale Preludes for piano by Dubravko Detoni were composed in 1963, when he was studying composition in the class of Stjepan Šulek at the Academy of Music in Zagreb. They were premiered by pianist Robert Andres on August 18, 1982, at the Hvar Summer Festival. They were arranged by Čedomil Dugan for the organ. The piece was recorded for the radio by the pianist Stjepan Radić and the author himself (partly on the piano) and Čedomil Dugan, on the organ, and was published on the Jugoton LPs “Detoni plays Detoni” (1980) and “Čedomil Dugan, organ” (1982). It is an ornamental (first prelude – Moderato) and decorative variation (second prelude – Adagio cantabile) on the theme of Bach’s famous chorale “Mach’s mit mir, Gott nach deiner Güt” and a virtuoso polyphonic fugue with the final chorale of the same theme in soprano and bass (third prelude – Allegro).”
