IDAGIO | Martinů: Piano Trio No. 1 "5 Pièces brèves" - Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 3 881488220292

Featuring

Kyoko Ogawa
Yu Ito
Kosuke Akimoto
Aoi Trio
Bohuslav Martinů
Antonín Dvořák

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Composer's Artistic Vision

A core commitment of the National Czech School, to which both Dvořák and Martinů belonged, was to allude to the folk music of their land in their compositions.

Performer Biography

The Aoi Trio, founded in 2016, won the prestigious first prize for piano trios at the ARD international music competition in 2018, an award only given five times in its history.

Composer Biography

Antonín Dvořák, along with Bedřich Smetana and Leoš Janáček, played a major role in making Czech music known around the world.

Compositional Technique

A quarter of Antonín Dvořák's entire musical output consists of chamber music, which was unusual for a composer active in the second half of the 19th century.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Bohuslav Martinů declared that he was 'always truer to myself' in pure chamber music.

Composer Biography

Bohuslav Martinů studied violin at the Prague Conservatory and later composition in Paris with Albert Roussel, remaining in France for seventeen years.

Historical Context

Both Antonín Dvořák and Bohuslav Martinů, the composers on this album, were representatives of the National Czech School of music, which emerged in the mid-19th century.