Bohuslav Martinů moved to the United States at the beginning of the 1940s to escape the spreading Nazi occupation of Europe.
Performer Biography
Giorgio Koukl, the pianist, first encountered Bohuslav Martinů's music during master-classes with Rudolf Firkušný, a friend and advocate of the composer.
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
Jana Wallingerová, the mezzo-soprano on this album, studied at the Prague Conservatory and later joined the opera company of the National Theatre in Brno.
Composer Biography
Bohuslav Martinů was a prolific composer, with over four hundred pieces of music to his credit, including 92 works for solo voice and piano.
Composer Biography
Bohuslav Martinů, the composer, was born in a church tower in Polička, a small Bohemian town in what is now the Czech Republic.
Composition History
The majority of Bohuslav Martinů's works for voice and piano, 51 in all, were written in the three youthful years between 1910 and 1912.
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