„Die Feldmesse“ gehört zu den bedeutenden vokal-instrumentalen Werken von Bohuslav Martinu. Sie ist 1939 in Paris als Reaktion auf den Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkrieges entstanden und war für die Aufführung im Freien bestimmt. ...

Bohuslav Martinu’s “Field Mass” is one of his most significant vocal-instrumental works. It originated in 1939 in Paris in response to the outbreak of World War II and was intended for outdoor performance. The libretto, by Jirí Mucha, ...

Unusual instrumentations were by no means the exception in the chamber music works of Bohuslav Martinu, most notably the works he wrote in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s being characterised by his experimentation with sound and form. It is from ...

Unusual instrumentations were by no means the exception in the chamber music works of Bohuslav Martinu, most notably the works he wrote in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s being characterised by his experimentation with sound and form. It is from ...

“Incarnation” (1956), Bohuslav Martinu’s fourth piano concerto, follows an atypical two-movement structure. It was composed for Martinu’s friend Rudolf Firkušný, who played from a copy of the autograph until 1970, when the composition ...

Unusual instrumentations were by no means the exception in the chamber music works of Bohuslav Martinu, most notably the works he wrote in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s being characterised by his experimentation with sound and form. It is from ...

Unusual instrumentations were by no means the exception in the chamber music works of Bohuslav Martinu, most notably the works he wrote in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s being characterised by his experimentation with sound and form. It is from ...

The two concertos contained in this volume represent two different stylistic periods within Martinu's work. The "Concerto da Camera" (1941) is the last of his works inspired by the Baroque concerto grosso. The "Rhapsody-Concerto", ...