MARTINŮ Chamber Music with Flute

"Fenwick Smith is a very capable player with a full, appealing timbre, and he’s very ably partnered by pianist Sally Pinkas…and the entire program has plenty of color, variety, and the necessary idiomatic blend of rhythmic snap and easy lyricism." --ClassicsToday.com, January 2015

"In the Flute Sonata, Smith and Pinkas give the most interesting slow movement I’ve ever heard. The outer movements are well done, too." --American Record Guide, January 2011

After the death of Janáček in 1924, Martinů assumed the mantle of the leading Czech composer of the twentieth century. The chamber music on this disc abounds with the mosaic-like patterns, translucent lyricism and infectious rhythmic vitality which give his works their kaleidoscopic quality. From the highly original Sextet of 1929, with its jazzy Parisian character, to the Flute Sonata of 1945, in which the much-travelled composer imitates the song of the whippoorwill, an indigenous bird of New England, this disc surveys a quarter-century of Martinů’s prolific and always inventive output.

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Ditulis hoohoh — Jumat, 25 Maret 2016 — Add Comment — 20th century, Martinů Bohuslav