The Bohuslav Martinu Complete Edition

Bohuslav Martinu composed his last stage work of the pre-war period, "Alexandre bis", in 1937 for the World Exhibition in Paris of the same year. The libretto for this chamber opera buffa for five peo...

'To tell the truth, I'm a concerto grosso type,' Martinu wrote in 1945. Unsurprisingly, the concerto grosso is also the formal basis of both concertante compositions for four solo instruments and orch...

'Incarnation' (1956), Bohuslav Martinu's fourth piano concerto, follows an atypical two-movement structure. It was composed for Martinu's friend Rudolf Firkušný, who played from a copy of the autograp...

Martinu composed the one-act opera 'Ariane' over the course of a single month, in June 1958. He prepared the libretto himself according to his friend Georges Neveux's play 'The Voyage of Theseus' (194...

“The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca” and “The Parables” represent the culmination of the late Neo-Impressionist orchestral output of Bohuslav Martinu, marked by a fantastic, kaleidoscopic style. Ma...

El Concierto para violonchelo y orquesta nº 1 de Bohuslav Martinu existe en tres versiones: la primera de 1930, la segunda de 1939 y la tercera de 1955. Estas tres versiones difieren principalmente en...

Bohuslav Martinu compuso la ópera de un acto "Mariken de Nimègue" basada en un milagro mariano medieval holandés durante su estancia en París en 1933 sobre un texto en francés de Henri Ghéon. Esta es...

Besetzung: Sopran solo, Tenor solo, Bariton solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Flöte (2), Klarinette (2), Trompete (3), Posaune (2), Pauke, Schlagzeug, Harfe, Klavier, Violine (2), Viola, Cello,...

Besetzung: Piccolo-Flöte, Alt-Flöte (3), Oboe (3), Englischhorn, Klarinette (3), Fagott (2), Corno (4), Trompete (3), Posaune (3), Tuba, Pauke, Schlagwerk, Klavier, Violine (2), Viola, Cello, Kontraba...