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Martinu: Chamber Music (Incls Piano Quartet No. 1) Daniel Adni (piano) Young-Chang Cho, Alexander Ivashkin (cellos) Joel Marangella (oboe) Rainer Moog (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jan/2003 ] "The Piano Quartet...fares well in the Naxos performance...This alone is worth the price of the disc, but there is much else of value besides...the oboe Quartet and Viola Sonata should not be lightly dismissed." - BBC Music Mag. - Nov. 1996 |
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Complete Piano Music Vol. 1 Giogio Koukl (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] "Another worthy projected series is up-and-running from Naxos - they should certainly be giving this one high priority. This is attractive music with considerable merits and experience of Firkušný's marvellous record suggests that there are even... |
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Martinu: Piano Music (Complete), Volume 3 Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Sep/2007 ] This third release in the Naxos complete Martinů solo piano music series represents the most mature style of his work. |
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Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2 / Sonata for 2 Violins and Piano Karel Kosalek (piano) / Martinu Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] Chamber music occupies a significant place in the vast output of Bohuslav Martinu. His First Piano Quintet, written in 1933, a period during which Martinu renewed his interest in the folk-lore and traditional music of his native Bohemia, is a fine... |
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String Quartets 4, 5 & 7 Martinu Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jan/2003 ] "[The Martinu Quartet] certainly enjoys the same qualities of top to bottom equality of ensemble, keen rhythmic sense, and a sure understanding of the idiom…. Ideally natural recorded sound rounds out this fine release, certainly a jewel in Naxos'... |
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Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 National SO of Ukraine / Arthur Fagen [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2001 ] Naxos records the Martinu Symphonies |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (complete oratorio) Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra & chorus. Zdenek Kosler, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Jun/2002 ] "The story of the hero Gilgamesh's confrontation with the creature Enkidu is presented by Martinu with great resourcefulness, using both spoken narration and solo singers, and alternating moments of great lyrical intimacy with raw, primeval... |
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Symphonies Nos. 1 and 6 'Fantaisies symphoniques' Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra / Arthur Fagen (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2004 ] "Arthur Fagen and his Ukrainian orchestra give convincing accounts of both symphonies, and with the help of a sympathetic recording, they achieve that wonderfully luminous, glowing sound which is a special feature of Martinu's orchestral music" - BBC... |