Martinu - Chamber Music with Viola
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Label: Supraphon
Cat No: SU39522
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 15th September 2008
Contents
Works
Chamber Music no.1, H376 'Les fetes nocturnes'Duo no.2 for Violin and Viola, H331
Madrigals (3) for violin and viola, H313
Viola Sonata, H355
Artists
Alexander Besa (viola)Bohuslav Matousek (violin)
Petra Besa (piano)
Ludmila Peterkova (clarinet)
Jan Talich (violin)
Jiri Barta (violoncello)
Jana Bouskova (harp)
Karel Kosarek (piano)
Works
Chamber Music no.1, H376 'Les fetes nocturnes'Duo no.2 for Violin and Viola, H331
Madrigals (3) for violin and viola, H313
Viola Sonata, H355
Artists
Alexander Besa (viola)Bohuslav Matousek (violin)
Petra Besa (piano)
Ludmila Peterkova (clarinet)
Jan Talich (violin)
Jiri Barta (violoncello)
Jana Bouskova (harp)
Karel Kosarek (piano)
About
While Bohuslav Martinů 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 and 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” fervour 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.
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