The Bohuslav Martinu Complete Edition

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...

'To tell the truth, I'm a concerto grosso type,' Martinu wrote in 1945. Unsurprisingly, the concerto grosso is also the formal basis of both concertante compositions for four solo instruments and orch...

'Incarnation' (1956), Bohuslav Martinu's fourth piano concerto, follows an atypical two-movement structure. It was composed for Martinu's friend Rudolf Firkušný, who played from a copy of the autograp...

Martinu composed the one-act opera 'Ariane' over the course of a single month, in June 1958. He prepared the libretto himself according to his friend Georges Neveux's play 'The Voyage of Theseus' (194...

“The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca” and “The Parables” represent the culmination of the late Neo-Impressionist orchestral output of Bohuslav Martinu, marked by a fantastic, kaleidoscopic style. Ma...

Bohuslav Martinu's Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra No. 1 exists in three versions: the first from 1930, the second from 1939 and the third from 1955. These three versions differ primarily in th...

Bohuslav Martinu composed the one-act opera "Mariken de Nimègue" based on a medieval Dutch Marian miracle during his stay in Paris in 1933 to a French text by Henri Ghéon. This is the unpublished and...

Besetzung: Sopran solo, Tenor solo, Bariton solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Flöte (2), Klarinette (2), Trompete (3), Posaune (2), Pauke, Schlagzeug, Harfe, Klavier, Violine (2), Viola, Cello,...

Besetzung: Piccolo-Flöte, Alt-Flöte (3), Oboe (3), Englischhorn, Klarinette (3), Fagott (2), Corno (4), Trompete (3), Posaune (3), Tuba, Pauke, Schlagwerk, Klavier, Violine (2), Viola, Cello, Kontraba...