Martinu, Bohuslav - Complete Piano Music Vol 1 - Koukl, Giorgio (piano)

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Although they number approximately eighty out of a total of over four hundred works, Martinu’s compositions for solo piano have long been overshadowed by his orchestral and chamber music. This first release in the Naxos complete Martinů piano music edition features works written mainly during the composer’s residence in Paris between 1920 and 1938, then the focal point for many experimental trends in music.



Martinu’s desire to expand his developing compositional style can be heard on this disc in works as diverse as Three Sketches, influenced by American popular dance and jazz idioms, the impressionistic Fenêtre sur le jardin and Dance Sketches, a series of strikingly individual pieces whose rhythms recall Dvořák, Stravinsky, and Martinu’s mentor, Roussel.



Martinu was an enormously prolific composer, who seemed often enough careless of the fate of what he had written. He tended to avoid revision of his work and in consequence the vast quantity of music he wrote is of uneven quality and varying style, although he came, in the 1930s, to make increasing use of Czech thematic material and to be identified with his native country, from which he remained an exile.

Giorgio Koukl, piano
Bohuslav Martinu

8 Preludes, H. 181

1. No. 1. Blues

2. No. 2. Scherzo

3. No. 3. Andante

4. No. 4. Danse

5. No. 5. Capriccio

6. No. 6. Largo

7. No. 7. Etude

8. No. 8. Foxtrot



Fenetre sur le jardin (Window on the Garden), H. 270

9. I. Poco andante

10. II. Allegro moderato

11. III. Moderato

12. IV. Allegretto



Bajky (Fables), H. 138

13. No. 1. Na farme (On the Farm)

14. No. 2. Chudak kralicek (The Poor Rabbit)

15. No. 3. Opicky (The Monkeys)

16. No. 4. Kuratko (The Chicken)

17. No. 5. Zly medved (The Angry Bear)



3 esquisses (3 Sketches), H. 160

18. No. 1. Tempo di Blues

19. No. 2. Tempo di Tango

20. No. 3. Tempo di Charleston



Le Noel (Christmas), H. 167

21. No. 1. Le traineau (The Sledge)

22. No. 2. Berceuse enfantine (Child's Lullaby)

23. No. 3. Chant de Noel (Christmas Carol)



5 esquisses de danses (Dance Sketches), H. 220

24. No. 1. Allegro moderato

25. No. 2. Poco andantino

26. No. 3. Allegro vivo

27. No. 4. Tempo di valse

28. No. 5. Allegro



29. Foxtrot, H. 126