Martinu, Bohuslav - Complete Piano Music Vol. 2 - Koukl, Giorgio (piano)
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GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE'At Naxos’s prices, it’s always worth taking a risk. These early Martinu works are very far from his later self. It’s delightful stuff, though, and played with commitment by Giorgio Koukl. Not just for Martinu completists, this, and a reminder of the way (in its 20th anniversary year) that Naxos has developed from a budget supplier of core repertoire to one of our foremost explorers of fascinating musical byways.'
(Gramophone)
• The Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu was highly prolific, with over 400 works in many forms to his credit. In this second CD of his piano works, we have three sets of Puppets, written between 1912 and 1924. These and his Film in Miniature of 1925 reflect Martinu's fascination with popular culture.
• The two sets of Garden Cycles from 1920 predate the composer's move to Paris. The Fifth Day of the Fifth Moon is dedicated to Hsien-Ming Lee Tcherepnin, the Chinese-born pianist and that composer's wife, while Les Bouginistes is dedicated to his own wife Charlotte - both written in New York in 1948.
• 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
Puppets: Book 3 (H.92)
Puppets: Book 2 (H.116)
Puppets: Book 1 (H.137)
Film en miniature (H.148)
Spring in the Garden (H.125)
Butterflies and Birds of Paradise (H.127)
The Fifth Day of the Fifth Moon (H. 318)
Les bouquinistes du Quai Malaquais (H.319)