Ten of the works on this seventh CD in the series of Martinu's complete piano music are world prèmiere recordings.
Giorgio Koukl, the pianist on this recording, is considered one of the world's leading interpreters of Martinu's piano music.
The work 'A Fairy-Tale of Goldilocks' by Martinu is an autobiographical love story, with the composer styling himself as 'the pale boy'.
Bohuslav Martinu, the composer, was born in a church tower in Polička, a small Bohemian town in what is now the Czech Republic.
Giorgio Koukl, the pianist, moved to Switzerland in 1968, the same year Soviet tanks rolled into his birthplace of Prague.
Martinu, a prolific composer, wrote over four hundred pieces of music, with about eighty of them being for the piano.
