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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Martinu - Duos & Trio for strings
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| |  | Martinu - Complete Piano Music Volume 4
“Koukl, very well recorded here, remains a dependable interpreter capturing the widely varied accents of this collection with considerable precision in nearly all cases.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 *** “Koukl's performances are a delight throughout…” Gramophone Magazine, February 2008 | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Leonard Rose: Live in Recital 1953 - 1960
Bach, J S: | Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C major, BWV564 Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV1009 | Barber, S: | Cello Sonata in C minor, Op. 6 | Beethoven: | Variations (7) on "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen", for Cello and Piano, WoO 46 | Chopin: | Nocturne No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1 | Debussy: | The Little Shepherd (from Children's Corner) Cello Sonata | Franck, C: | Cello Sonata in A major | Francoeur: | Cello Sonata in E major: Allegro | Haydn: | Duet for Violin and Cello in D major, Hob. VI: C6 | Ibert: | Le petit âne blanc (from Histoires) | Martinu: | Sonata for Cello & Piano No. 2, H. 286 | Schumann: | Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 |
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| |  | Barber, Grieg, Martinu: Works for Cello and Piano
“...Kristine Blaumane… is a technically fine player… Her passionate playing is heard to best effect in Barber's apprentice Sonata…” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Martinu based on the novel by Nikos
Kazantzakis „Christ Recrucified“
Supraphon 1981 Sung in English, subtitles: Czech, German, French “The vocal performances are without exception magnificent: John Mitchinson as Manolios and Helen Field as Katerina, respectively Christ and Mary Magdalen, deliver near definitive readings of their roles. The transfer to a realistic open air set with actors taking the vocal roles is not particularly successful.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2008 *** “The story of Martinu's penultimate opera begins with a priest allotting roles in the local Passion play to various congregation members.
When a group of refugees arrive begging land (their village having been sacked by the Turks) the would-be actors begin to assume the roles of their characters. Thus, after the priest rejects the refugees on the pretext that they carry cholera, Manolios, assigned to play Christ, directs them towards Mount Sarakina where there is room to spare, while the pedlar Yannakos, playing Peter, repents of a scheme to deprive the refugees of their valuables in exchange for essentials.
Panait, allotted the role of Judas, is incensed by the change of heart of Katerina, playing Mary Magdalene, who is drawn into a close spiritual bond with Manolios, who rejects his fiancée, Lenio, who in turn becomes engaged to another. In the end, Manolios's identification with Christ and sympathy for the plight of the refugees becomes too much for the priest, who excommunicates him. In a confrontation outside the church, Manolios is killed by Panait and the Passion play ended.
Supraphon's film is not of a stage or even studio performance, but was made for Czech Television in 1999 as a kind of outside broadcast, set around a real stone-built village and church.
The recording is that made in 1981 in Brno using the local orchestra and Czech choruses by Sir Charles Mackerras with soloists from Welsh National Opera. The live actors, for the most part Czechs, mouth the English text very well, though differences in mime technique are at times striking.
The outdoor setting works remarkably well, centred on the village square, the church, various cottages and the hillside where the refugees attempt to eke out a new home. The recording still sounds sumptuous, the elision of certain segments has been done expertly and for those unfamiliar with Martinu's radiant score, this film – ending with the iconic image of the dead Manolios on the church steps, should prove a compelling and moving experience.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “Supraphon's film… was made for Czech Television… as a kind of outside broadcast, set around a real stone-built village and church. The recording still sounds sumptuous, the elision of certain segments has been done expertly and for those unfamiliar with Martinu's radiant score, this film - ending with the iconic image of the dead Manolios on the church steps, should prove a compelling and moving experience.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Martinu - The complete music for violin and orchestra Volume 1
“What a splendidly bracing collection this is. Bohuslav Matousek and his fellow soloists are excellent advocates for this repertoire, delivering engaging performances of the motoric fast movements alongside generous lyricism in the more broadly conceived slower movements.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 **** “The first volume, in what will be a series of four devoted to Martinu's concertante works for violin, is completed by another enchanting early double concerto, for flute and violin, penned in just 10 days in 1936. There is no hint of rush in its fresh and lively invention, the solo roles played with beguiling ease by Janne Thomsen and Matoušek. Accompanied by the Czech Philharmonic - in whose second violin section the composer played in the 1920s - this disc is an utter delight from start to finish.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2007 “[Duo concertante] Written in Martinuo ’s best 1930s concerto grosso style, its three movements are limpidly scored, allowing the flowing, interweaving lines of the soloists to sound to best advantage; as the excellent booklet-notes say, ‘an extraordinary musical experience’ … this disc is an utter delight from start to finish” Gramophone Magazine “Written in Martinu's best 1930s concerto grosso style, the Duo concertante's three movements (fast-slow-fast) are limpidly scored, allowing the flowing, interweaving lines of the soloists to sound to best advantage; as the excellent bookletnotes say, 'an extraordinary musical experience'.
For this equally vibrant recording, Régis Pasquier partners Bohuslav Matoušek while Jennifer Koh appears with Matoušek in the Concerto in D major (1950). Unlike its predecessor, the later work is in the standard 19th-century concerto format – one reason why Martinu did not number the works – and structurally quite different.
For one thing, there is no real slow movement, the central span (dovetailed into the finale) being moderate in pace with a più vivo central section. In atmosphere it is one of those fleet-footed yet serene works in which Martinu's inspiration seems just to beam from ear to ear.
This first volume, in what will be a series of four devoted to Martinu's concertante works for violin, is completed by another enchanting early double concerto, for flute and violin, penned in just 10 days in 1936. There is no hint of rush in its fresh and lively invention, the solo roles played with beguiling ease by Janne Thomsen and Matoušek. Accompanied by the Czech Philharmonic – in whose second violin section the composer played in the 1920s – this disc is an utter delight from start to finish.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Martinu - Complete Piano Music Volume 3
“This new volume of Martinu piano works is a near-complete delight… Koukl has a clear vision for each [piece]’s expressive language and there is a huge amount to enjoy on this richly satisfying and well-recorded disc…” BBC Music Magazine, October 2007 **** | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | cantata for soloists, chorus and orchestra
Martinu’s oratorio The Epic of Gilgamesh (1955) is unusual and, in a way, unique in all the international literature, as exciting and mysterious as the ancient tale on which it is based. The epic, one of the oldest extant examples of written culture, dates back to the beginning of Babylon, and Martinu devoted a number of years to the study of its philosophical basis before beginning to set to music Thompson’s translation of its Neoassyrian version. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Tilmann Wick (cello), Pascal Devoyon (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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