Martinu, Bohuslav - Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2 - Martinu Quartet

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ARTISTIC QUALITY: 10
SOUND QUALITY: 10
(CLASSICSTODAY.com)


• Chamber music occupies a significant place in the vast output of Bohuslav Martinù. His First Piano Quintet, written in 1933, a period during which Martinù renewed his interest in the folk-lore and traditional music of his native Bohemia, is a fine instance of the neo-classicism dominating his output in the 1930s.





• The larger-scale Second Piano Quintet, composed in 1944, exhibits the restlessness and anxiety that Martinù felt during the war years. The Sonata for Two Violins and Piano is freer and more relaxed than the two quintets, and is written in a style more baroque than classical.





• The Martinù quartet’s previous recordings for Naxos have won outstanding reviews: “[The Martinu Quartet] certainly enjoys the same qualities of top to bottom equality of ensemble, keen rhythmic sense, and a sure understanding of the idiom…. Ideally natural recorded sound rounds out this fine release, certainly a jewel in Naxos' chamber music crown” Classics Today on 8.553784



Martinu Quartet:

Lubomír Havlák, violin

Petr Maceèek, violin

Jan Jíša, viola

Jitka Vlašánková, cello

Karel Košárek, piano


Bohuslav Martinu

Piano Quintet No. 1, H. 229

1. I. Poco allegro

2. II. Andante (poco moderato)

3. III. Allegretto

4. IV. Allegro moderato



Piano Quintet No. 2, H. 298

5. I. Poco allegro

6. II. Adagio

7. III. Scherzo - Poco allegretto

8. IV. Largo - Allegro (non troppo)



Sonata for 2 Violins and Piano, H. 213

9. I. Allegro poco moderato

10. II. Andante - Allegro