Great Czech Conductors: Martin Turnovský

Release Date: 25th Jun 2012
Catalogue No: SU40822
Label: Supraphon
Series: Great Czech Conductors

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Martinů: Symphony No. 4, H. 305

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Martin Turnovský

Ibert: Concerto for Cello & Wind Instruments

Chamber Harmony
Martin Turnovský

Martinů: Concertino for Cello, Winds, Percussion & Piano in C minor, H. 143

André Navarra (cello)
Chamber Harmony
Martin Turnovský

Hindemith: Trauermusik

Ladislav Černý (viola)
Prague Chamber Orchestra
Martin Turnovský

Martinů: Tre Ricercari

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Martin Turnovský

Myslivecek: Sinfonia in D major

Prague Chamber Orchestra
Martin Turnovský

Bizet: Jeux d'enfants (Petite Suite), Op. 22

Prague Symphony Orchestra
Martin Turnovský

Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux

Pavel Štěpán, Ilja Hurník (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Martin Turnovský

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63

Ladislav Jásek (violin)
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Martin Turnovský

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A Czech conductor who excelled worldwide. Martin Turnovsky recordings for the first time on CD.

Paradoxically, a greater opportunity to witness the artistry of the remarkable Czech conductor Martin Turnovsky, whose teachers included Karel Ančerl and George Szell, has been afforded to audiences abroad.

After winning the international conducting competition in Besancon (1958), he had to wait almost a decade for the real launch of his international career, since the totalitarian regime in Czechoslovakia prevented him from travelling around the world.

He was chief conductor of the Dresdner Staatskapelle and Staatsoper, and, after emigrating to the West at the end of the 1960s, led the Operas in Oslo and Bonn, guest-conducted the New York Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and other major orchestras. Only after the regime change in Czechoslovakia in 1989 could he renew his work with orchestras on home soil. In the 1960s he made numerous recordings for Supraphon. The majority of those presented on these discs are now available on CD for the first time. They bear witness to Turnovsky’s distinct talent, which several years later would dazzle to the full in front of the world’s most renowned orchestras.

Great Czech Conductors: Martin Turnovský

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