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What a splendidly bracing collection this is. Bohuslav Matousek and his fellow soloists are excellent advocates for this repertoire, delivering engaging performances of the motoric fast movements... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Oct 2007
Catalogue No: CDA67671
Label: Hyperion
Series: Martinu Violin and Orchestra Series
Length: 55 minutes

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Martinů: Concerto for flute, violin and orchestra H252

Work length18:37

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Janne Thomsen (flute), Bohuslav Matoušek (violin)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Hogwood

I. Allegro moderato

Track length4:59

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II. Adagio

Track length8:10

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III. Poco allegretto

Track length5:28

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Martinů: Duo concertante for two violins and orchestra H264

Work length17:50

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Bohuslav Matoušek (violin), Régis Pasquier (violin)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Hogwood

I. Poco allegro

Track length4:48

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II. Adagio

Track length6:54

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III. Allegro

Track length6:08

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Martinů: Concerto in D major for two violins and orchestra H329

Work length18:33

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Bohuslav Matoušek (violin), Jennifer Koh (violin)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Hogwood

I. Poco allegro

Track length7:26

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II. Moderato – Più vivo – Tempo primo –

Track length4:33

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III. Allegro con brio – Vivo: Presto

Track length6:34

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This recording is the first volume of a four-disc survey of Martinus complete output for solo violin and orchestra, including compositions with other solo instruments. This important series will include some first recordings, and works which are currently widely performed only in the Czech Republic; they are still waiting to be rediscovered abroad. They are performed here by the orchestra in which Martinu played the violin, the distinguished Czech violinist Bohuslav Matousek who is one of the foremost living exponents of this music, and conductor Christopher Hogwood.

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February 2008

What a splendidly bracing collection this is. Bohuslav Matousek and his fellow soloists are excellent advocates for this repertoire, delivering engaging performances of the motoric fast movements alongside generous lyricism in the more broadly conceived slower movements.

2010

Written in Martinu's best 1930s concerto grosso style, the Duo concertante's three movements (fast-slow-fast) are limpidly scored, allowing the flowing, interweaving lines of the soloists to sound to best advantage; as the excellent bookletnotes say, 'an extraordinary musical experience'.
For this equally vibrant recording, Régis Pasquier partners Bohuslav Matoušek while Jennifer Koh appears with Matoušek in the Concerto in D major (1950). Unlike its predecessor, the later work is in the standard 19th-century concerto format – one reason why Martinu did not number the works – and structurally quite different.
For one thing, there is no real slow movement, the central span (dovetailed into the finale) being moderate in pace with a più vivo central section. In atmosphere it is one of those fleet-footed yet serene works in which Martinu's inspiration seems just to beam from ear to ear.
This first volume, in what will be a series of four devoted to Martinu's concertante works for violin, is completed by another enchanting early double concerto, for flute and violin, penned in just 10 days in 1936. There is no hint of rush in its fresh and lively invention, the solo roles played with beguiling ease by Janne Thomsen and Matoušek. Accompanied by the Czech Philharmonic – in whose second violin section the composer played in the 1920s – this disc is an utter delight from start to finish.

[Duo concertante] Written in Martinuo ’s best 1930s concerto grosso style, its three movements are limpidly scored, allowing the flowing, interweaving lines of the soloists to sound to best advantage; as the excellent booklet-notes say, ‘an extraordinary musical experience’ … this disc is an utter delight from start to finish

November 2007

The first volume, in what will be a series of four devoted to Martinu's concertante works for violin, is completed by another enchanting early double concerto, for flute and violin, penned in just 10 days in 1936. There is no hint of rush in its fresh and lively invention, the solo roles played with beguiling ease by Janne Thomsen and Matoušek. Accompanied by the Czech Philharmonic - in whose second violin section the composer played in the 1920s - this disc is an utter delight from start to finish.

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