Martinu˚ moved to the United States in the early 1940s to escape the spreading Nazi occupation of Europe.
Performer Biography
Giorgio Koukl, the pianist on this album, was born in Prague and moved to Switzerland in 1968, the same year Soviet tanks rolled into Prague.
Performer Biography
Giorgio Koukl first encountered Martinu˚'s music during master-classes with Rudolf Firkušný, a friend and advocate of Martinu˚.
Composer Biography
Bohuslav Martinu˚, the composer, was born in a church tower in Policˇka, a small Bohemian town in what is now the Czech Republic.
Composer Biography
Martinu˚ began composing at the age of ten and later moved to Paris in 1923 to study with Albert Roussel, a French composer.
Recording & Production
Many pieces on this album, including 'Three Lyric Pieces,' 'Evening at the Shore,' 'Song Without Words,' and 'Nocturne,' are world premiere recordings from manuscript sources.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Martinu˚ was a prolific composer, writing over four hundred pieces of music, with about eighty of them for the piano.
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