Martinu - Piano Quintets Nos 1 & 2, Sonata for Two Violins and Piano  | Naxos 8557861

Martinu - Piano Quintets Nos 1 & 2, Sonata for Two Violins and Piano

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8557861

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 2nd April 2007

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Chamber music occupies a significant place in the vast output of Bohuslav Martinů. His First Piano Quintet, written in 1933, a period during which Martinů renewed his interest in the folk-lore and traditional music of his native Bohemia, is a fine instance of the neo-classicism dominating his output in the 1930s. 
 
The larger-scale Second Piano Quintet, composed in 1944, exhibits the restlessness and anxiety that Martinů felt during the war years. The Sonata for Two Violins and Piano is freer and more relaxed than the two quintets, and is written in a style more baroque than classical.
 
The Martinů Quartet’s previous recordings for Naxos have won outstanding reviews: “[The Martinu Quartet] certainly enjoys the same qualities of top to bottom equality of ensemble, keen rhythmic sense, and a sure understanding of the idiom…. Ideally natural recorded sound rounds out this fine release, certainly a jewel in Naxos' chamber music crown” Classics Today on 8553784

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