Orchestral, Martinů (composer)
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Hrůša has an assured drive through the elusive symphonic structures, culminating in an incessantly hair-raising Sixth...It's a journey you'll want to follow in close succession. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th May 2026
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Record Review, 23rd May 2026, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2026, Orchestral Choice
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Belohlavek and the orchestra are superb in the first three symphonies. He captures Martinu's shimmering, luminous orchestral textures and invests the pervasive 'sprung' rhythms of the faster... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, May 2016, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Orchestral
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Building a Library, September 2019, Recommended
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Special offer. Martinů: What Men Live By & Symphony No.1
RecommendedCzech Philharmonic, Jiří Bělohlávek
This sounds throughout, even in the numinous calling of the Lord which conjures up the composer’s familiar spooky vein, like Martinů lite…There’s a performance of the First Symphony, Bělohlávek’s... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th October 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Découverte
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Special offer. Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Martinu: Memorial to Lidice & Klein: Partita
Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
Eschenbach opens with Martinů's Memorial to Lidice… this performance serves to intensify an overriding feeling of despair, the Philadelphians responding with a chilling incisiveness particularly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Editor's Choice
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Life with Czech Music - Janacek & Martinu
RecommendedElisabeth Söderström (soprano), Drahomira Drobkova (contralto), Frantisek Livora (tenor), Richard Novak (bass), Jan Hora (organ), Kvetoslava Nemeckova (soprano), Leo Marian Vodicka (tenor), Vaclav Zitek (baritone), Josef Ruzicka (piano), Jan Bouse (timpani), Eva Urbanova (soprano), Bernarda Fink...
Even the recording acoustic is warm, enough sometimes to curl the music’s edges and smudge away little details. But Mackerras’s handling of this repertoire is so fresh, so responsive to the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Choral
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These musicians capture the rhapsodic flow [of the Martinů] right from the opening of the threemovement work. The orchestral detail, sitting somewhere between impressionism and pointillism,... —
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Building a Library, October 2009, First Choice
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Building a Library, July 2017, First Choice
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Martinů’s orchestral soundworld is distinctly his own, without ever being samey. The vividly painted Les Fresques de Piero della Francesca is the best known work here, though The Parables, mysterious... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Building a Library, January 2009, First Choice
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