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Complete Songs

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Description

Bohuslav Martinu honed his songwriting craft in between composing larger orchestral works, his yearning for home reflected in the Four Songs to Czech Folk Texts written during desperate times in the Second World War. Sourced from previously unpublished manuscripts, this unique programme presents world premiere recordings of earlier songs written during summer holidays in Policka, as well as the Three Songs after Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, long thought to e lost but miraculously unearthed just weeks before this recording. Pianist Giorgio Koukl regards these songs as similar to pearls, "born out of hardship, pain and discomfort and, after a while, becoming precious and admired."

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Specifications
  • Format
    CD
  • Brand
    Naxos
  • Model #
    8573823
  • Number of Pieces
    1
  • Available Date
    3/9/2018

Tracks

  • 1 New Anthology, H.288 (1942)
  • 2 Four Songs to Czech Folk Texts, H.282Bis (1940)
  • 3 Three Songs After Poems By Guillaume Apollinaire, H.197 (1930)
  • 4 From Childhood, H.51 (1912)
  • 5 Four Children's Songs and Nursery Rhymes, H.225 (1932)
  • 6 Carol of Love, H.259 (1937)
  • 7 The Jilted Maiden, H.67 (1912)
  • 8 Jašek's Song, H.37 (1911)
  • 9 Talk to Me Further, H.66 (1912)
  • 10 Two Ballads to Folk Texts, H.228 (1932)
  • 11 You Write to Me, H.48 (1912)
  • 12 Best Wishes to Mother, H.279Bis (1939)
  • 13 Two Songs, H.213 (1932)
  • 14 Three Songs for Christmas, H.184Bis (1929)
  • 15 Vocalise, H.188 (1929)