FREE UK SHIPPING OVER £30!

Martinu - Symphonies 5 & 6  | Supraphon SU40072

Martinu - Symphonies 5 & 6

£15.02

Currently out of stock at the UK suppliers. Available to order, but is likely to take longer than usual to despatch

Label: Supraphon

Cat No: SU40072

Barcode: 0099925400729

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 14th December 2009

Contents

Artists

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Jiri Belohlavek

Works

Martinu, Bohuslav

Symphony no.5, H310
Symphony no.6, H343 'Fantaisies symphoniques'

Artists

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Jiri Belohlavek

About

Jiří Bělohlávek and the Czech Philharmonic follow up their critically acclaimed 2005 album of Martinů’s Symphonies Nos 3 and 4 (SU36312), which was nominated for a Grammy award and hailed by critics as a recording par excellence of these works.

This eagerly awaited CD, the second in a planned complete set, presents the composer’s last two symphonies, both written during his post-war sojourn in America.
 
Symphony No.5 was finished in 1946 and reflects Martinů’s doubt and disenchantment over developments in Czechoslovakia, the homeland to which he would never return.

His last symphony, dedicated to his friend Charles Munch, then conductor of the Boston Symphony, was written during the years 1951–53. The wide-ranging and colourful orchestration of the “Symphonic Fantasies”, as Martinů himself titled it, marked a return to the symphonism and traditions of the late-Romantic music of the late 19th/early 20th centuries.

Error on this page? Let us know here

Need more information on this product? Click here