Martinu - Complete Piano Music Volume 1 | Naxos 8557914

Martinu - Complete Piano Music Volume 1

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8557914

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 30th October 2006

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Although they number approximately eighty out of a total of over four hundred works, Martinu's compositions for solo piano have long been overshadowed by his orchestral and chamber music. This first release in the Naxos complete Martinu piano music edition features works written mainly during the composer’s residence in Paris between 1920 and 1938, then the focal point for many experimental trends in music. 
 
Martinu’s desire to expand his developing compositional style can be heard on this disc in works as diverse as Three Sketches, influenced by American popular dance and jazz idioms, the impressionistic Fenêtre sur le jardin and Dance Sketches, a series of strikingly individual pieces whose rhythms recall Dvořák, Stravinsky, and Martinů’s mentor, Roussel. 
 
Martinu was an enormously prolific composer, who seemed often enough careless of the fate of what he had written. He tended to avoid revision of his work and in consequence the vast quantity of music he wrote is of uneven quality and varying style, although he came, in the 1930s, to make increasing use of Czech thematic material and to be identified with his native country, from which he remained an exile.

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