Bohuslav Martinu

Until recently, nobody knew of the existence of Bohuslav Martinu's "Romance for Violin and Piano" H 186bis from 1930, especially as the composer had not mentioned the work in any of his personal catal...

Von den insgesamt 5 Sonaten für Violine und Klavier waren bisher nur die drei letzten allgemein bekannt. Diese zweite Sonate, aus dem Nachlass, stammt aus dem Jahre 1926, einer kurzen 'neoklassizistis...

Seven songs on Japanese poems (Czech, German, English) from 1912 - set here in this version for female voice and piano.

Martinu wrote this piano piece c. 1926. The title 'Par T.S.F.' means 'par télégraphie sans fils', in English 'by wireless transmission', e.g. 'by radio'. The dry ostinato at the beginning is reminisce...

'Ballade' was taken unaltered from Bohuslav Martinu's film opera 'Die drei Wünsche oder Die Wechselfälle des Lebens' - as a quartet like the original with piano accompaniment only. The mainly homophon...

Instrumentation: 2 Violin, 2 Violoncello, 2 Violas, 1 Double Bass

For flute, violin and piano.

Composed by the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinü in 1927, La Revue De Cuisine is a ballet initially created for a sextet. This score was reviewed and tailored for an Orchestra. This ballet, talking ab...

tschech. / engl.

Bohuslav Martinu composed his last stage work of the pre-war period, "Alexandre bis", in 1937 for the World Exhibition in Paris of the same year. The libretto for this chamber opera buffa for five peo...