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Release Date: 15th Sep 2008
Catalogue No: SU39522
Label: Supraphon
Length: 68 minutes

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Martinů: Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola, H. 313 "Duo No. 1"

Work length15:39

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Alexander Besa (soloist), Bohuslav Matoušek (soloist)

I. Poco allegro

Track length4:26

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II. Poco andante

Track length5:38

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III. Allegro

Track length5:35

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Martinů: Duo No. 2 for Violin and Viola, H. 331

Work length15:35

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Alexander Besa (soloist), Bohuslav Matoušek (soloist)

I. Allegro

Track length5:24

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II. Lento

Track length6:02

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III. Allegro poco

Track length4:09

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Martinů: Sonata for Viola & Piano, H. 355

Work length16:45

$1.60

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Alexander Besa (soloist), Petra Besa (soloist)

I. Poco andante - Moderato

Track length8:02

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II. Allegro non troppo

Track length8:43

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Martinů: Chamber Music No. 1 for Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello, Harp and Piano, H. 376

Work length20:02

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Alexander Besa (soloist), Jan Talich (soloist), Ludmila Peterková (soloist), Jirí Bárta (soloist), Karel Košárek (soloist), Jana Bouskova (soloist)

I. Allegro moderato

Track length7:13

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II. Andante moderato

Track length6:51

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III. Poco Allegro

Track length5:58

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While Bohuslav Martinu dedicated himself to the violin and its brilliant tone from the very beginning of his oeuvre, the viola doesn’t appear until his later years, (all of the pieces on this album dating from the period 1947–59). It is as if he found in the viola, with its dark timbres, its ability to be harsh and rhythmic as well as sweet and lyrical, an instrument to express his feelings and sufferings in the last part of his life.

A Mozartian joy and temperament flash through the lyrical moods, nostalgia and “Czech” fervor of the folk-music motives, like reminders of his unbridled youth through memories of the homeland to which he was no longer able to return. The transparent structure of the Three Madrigals and Duet No. 2 gives way to the ardent song of the Sonata for Viola, while in the Chamber Music the viola is just a gossamer strand in the broad color palette of the combinations of all the instruments in the sextet.

Violist Alexander Besa is an excellent soloist, chamber player and orchestral musician (Camerata Bern et al.) with a number of recordings and awards to his name. The album features, without exaggeration, the best Czech musicians of the younger generation.

The lyrical viola, dark and brilliant, joyful and mournful in the later works of Bohuslav Martinu.

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