Bohuslav Martinů: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6

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Release Date: 12th Aug 2022
Catalogue No: SWR19119CD
Label: SWR Music
Length: 60 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2023

Nominated - Symphonic Music

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Martinů: Symphony No. 5, H. 310

Work length30:35

$7.00

$9.05

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Sir Roger Norrington

I. Adagio - Allegro

Track length8:27

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$2.60

II. Larghetto

Track length9:34

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$2.60

III. Lento - Allegro

Track length12:34

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$3.85

Martinů: Symphony No. 6 'Fantaises symphoniques', H. 343

Work length29:38

$7.00

$9.05

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Sir Roger Norrington

I. Lento

Track length9:17

$2.00

$2.60

II. Poco allegro

Track length7:55

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$2.60

III. Lento

Track length12:26

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$3.85

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"Bohuslav Martinů’s six symphonies were composed between 1942 and 1953 during the composer’s years in America. He completed the first five symphonies at the astonishing rate of one per year, although not at any artistic expense – years later, he described the Fifth Symphony as a ‘well organised, organic, well ordered work’ in an interview with The New York Times. A full seven years elapsed, however, before Martinů completed his Sixth. One of his ‘unexpected’ works, it took, quite unusually for him, two years to complete, and its form proved to be a radical change from his previous symphonies. As he wrote to his friend Šafránek – ‘I am about to create fantasias!’ In November 2021 Sir Roger Norrington announced his retirement from conducting. From 1998 to 2011 he was chief conductor of the former Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (today the SWR Symphonieorchester), and during that time caused an international stir with what came to be known as the ‘Stuttgart Sound’ – a synthesis of historically-informed performance practice with the technical capabilities of a modern orchestra. Whether Mozart, Haydn, Bruckner, Brahms or Martinů, Norrington sought to recreate a faithful performance experience, adjusting the orchestra’s size and seating plan, and creating an authentic sound without vibrato.

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