Great Czech Conductors: Martin Turnovsky | Supraphon SU40822

Great Czech Conductors: Martin Turnovsky

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Label: Supraphon

Cat No: SU40822

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 25th June 2012

Contents

Artists

Andre Navarra (cello)
Ladislav Cerny (viola)
Pavel Stepan (piano)
Ilja Hurnik (piano)
Ladislav Jasek (violin)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Chamber Harmony
Prague Chamber Orchestra
Prague Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Martin Turnovsky

Works

Bizet, Georges

Jeux d'enfants, op.22

Hindemith, Paul

Trauermusik

Ibert, Jacques

Concerto for cello and 10 wind instruments

Martinu, Bohuslav

Concertino for cello, winds, percussion and piano in C minor, H143
Symphony no.4, H305
Tre ricercari, H267

Myslivecek, Josef

Sinfonia in D major

Prokofiev, Sergei

Violin Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.63

Saint-Saens, Camille

Carnival of the Animals

Artists

Andre Navarra (cello)
Ladislav Cerny (viola)
Pavel Stepan (piano)
Ilja Hurnik (piano)
Ladislav Jasek (violin)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Chamber Harmony
Prague Chamber Orchestra
Prague Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Martin Turnovsky

About

After winning the international conducting competition in Besancon (1958), Martin Turnovsky had to wait almost a decade for the real launch of his international career, since the totalitarian regime in Czechoslovakia prevented him from travelling around the world.

He was chief conductor of the Dresdner Staatskapelle and Staatsoper and, after emigrating to the West at the end of the 1960s, led the Operas in Oslo and Bonn, guest-conducted the New York Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and other major orchestras. Only after the regime change in Czechoslovakia in 1989 could he renew his work with orchestras on home soil.

In the 1960s he made numerous recordings for Supraphon. The majority of those presented on these discs are now available on CD for the first time. They bear witness to Turnovsky’s distinct talent, which several years later would dazzle to the full in front of the world’s most renowned orchestras.

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