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Martinu - Complete Symphonies | Brilliant Classics 8950

Martinu - Complete Symphonies

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 8950

Barcode: 5029365895026

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 14th July 2008

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As with all enormously prolific composers, Martinu’s works are uneven in quality, but his symphonies are generally held among the outstanding 20th-century examples of the genre. All six were written in the USA, the first five in consecutive years from 1942 – the shadow of war can be heard in several march-like movements but they frequently reveal the composer’s Czech origins, particularly in the stirring slow movements which become darker and more probing as the cycle progresses.

The textures and rhythms have a percussive energy that derives both from his formative years of study in Paris in the 1920s and from the prominent use of a piano within the orchestra.

The Bambergers play for all they are worth for Järvi, who brings out Martinu’s individual qualities and secures a remarkable degree of clarity.’ - Gramophone

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