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