Double Martinů live on Mezzo TV
From January 22 to 24, Rudolfinum will belong almost exclusively to Bohuslav Martinů. Three concerts by the Czech Philharmonic, conducted by Chief Conductor Semyon Bychkov, will offer Symphony No. 2 "Le Double" by Henri Dutilleux and two compositions by Bohuslav Martinů: Concerto for Two Pianos performed by sisters Marielle and Katie Labèque and Double Concerto for Two String orchestras, Piano and Timpani with Ivo Kahánek and Michael Kroutil. The concert will be broadcast live on Friday by the prestigious French television channel Mezzo Live HD. It will be made possible by advanced technology that was installed in the Dvořák Hall last season.→ More
Martinů Incantation nominated for BBC Music Magazine Award
The recording of Antonín Dvořák’s and Bohuslav Martinů’s piano concertos, made by the pianist Ivo Kahánek and the Bamberger Symphoniker under the baton of Jakub Hrůša has garnered critical acclaim since its release last September (BBC Radio 3 Disc of the Week; BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Month; Choix de Classique HD). Now it has been selected as one of the three BBC Music Magazine Award nominees in the „Concerto“ category.→ More
New Martinů Revue 3/2019 is out now
With the end of December, the last issue of the Martinů Revue of 2019 magazine is released. It offers, for example, reviews of the Greek Passion in Leeds and the Plays of Mary in Bremerhaven, texts commemorating pianist Rudolf Firkušný and patron of the arts Paul Sacher, or the first part of texts by Bohuslav Martinů on his life during World War II. The new issue also includes an album from the Bohuslav Martinů Days Festival (years 2017 and 2018). You can find the whole content here.→ More
Bohuslav Martinů and Prague Spring Festival 2020
In 2020, the Prague Spring International Music Festival will be celebrating its 75th anniversary. The Berlin Philharmonic has accepted an invitation to the Prague Spring Festival, and under its new chief conductor Kirill Petrenko, the orchestra will break with tradition by opening the festival on 7 May (7/5), a date that symbolically commemorates the festival’s 75th anniversary. Overall, the festival will offer 53 classical music concerts, including the concerts with music of Bohuslav Martinů, whose compositions will be performed at concerts of PKF - Prague Philharmonia (Toccata e due canzoni) and the Prague Symphony Orchestra (La Bagarre).→ More
BBC Music Magazine recording of the month for Incantation
The new album featuring Antonín Dvořák’s and Bohuslav Martinů's Piano Concertos, as performed by Ivo Kahánek and Bamberger Symphoniker conducted by Jakub Hrůša, received the Recording of the Month in the Christmas issue of BBC Music Magazine.→ More
100 years of Martinů: Sonata in C major
Michael Crump began the series entitled "100 years of Martinů", dedicated to works written or first performed one hundred years ago, with an overview of the Little Dance Suite, H 123. This time, we publish a text on Sonata in C major, H 120 by Aleš Březina, director of the Bohuslav Martinů Institute.→ More
New desk calendar for 2020
Bohuslav Martinů e-shop offers new desk calendar for 2020 with images of places from the town of Polička and its surrounding landscape connected to Bohuslav Martinů. The commentary describes the relation between the places and the composer in Czech, English, and German language.→ More
Pavel Haas Quartet to perform in Prague for the Bohuslav Martinů Institute
The fifth benefit concert in support of research projects of the Bohuslav Martinů Institute will see the Pavel Haas Quartet perform at Kaiserstein Palace in Lesser Town Square on 8 November. Due to its busy schedule, a home performance is a rare event for what is one of the most successful Czech ensembles of our day. The concert will comprise string quartets by Béla Bartók and Bohuslav Martinů.→ More
The Greek Passion by Opera North Leeds live on BBC Radio 3
The Opera North in Leeds began its season on September 14 with the first version of Bohuslav Martinů's opera The Greek Passion, directed by Christopher Alden. The next performance, scheduled for November 9th, will be broadcast live by BBC Radio 3 from 6:30 pm.→ More
Incantation recorded by Kahánek released by Supraphon
The Piano Concerto No. 4 "Incantation" by Bohuslav Martinů and the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G minor by Antonín Dvořák are now released on a new album by Supraphon. Both concertos were recorded by Ivo Kahánek together with the Bamberger Symphoniker led by Jakub Hrůša in 2017 and 2019 in the concert hall of the Bamberger Symphoniker. The album was released by Supraphon, with the support from the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation.→ More
Bohuslav Martinů's correspondence to his family in Polička is out now
The first part of the correspondence by Bohuslav Martinů to his family in Polička is presented in a new Czech-English book prepared by Jaromír Synek and Gabriela Všetičková. The monograph “Dear all I. Bohuslav Martinůs letters to his family in Polička until 1931” is published by the Palacký University Olomouc.→ More
Bohuslav Martinů Days 2019 will show the genre variety of the composer's work
The Bohuslav Martinů Days, running from 24 November to 17 December this year, will offer twelve performances of some of the most prominent artists of the Czech and international music scenes.→ More
The Bohuslav Martinů Revue 2019/2 is out now
In these days, a new issue of the Martinů Revue 2019/2 magazine comes out. What does it offer? First of all, opera Juliette in many forms, as well as obituaries of recently deceased personalities associated with promoting work of Martinů, Graham Melville-Mason and Emil Leichner, or review of the re-edition of the successful album with complete concertant works of Bohuslav Martinů for violin and orchestra recorded by Bohuslav Matoušek.→ More
Eliška Nováková has passed away at the age of 91
At the age of 91, pianist and teacher Eliška Nováková passed away on 13 September 2019. She was a wife of the composer Jan Novák and during her performances she consistently devoted herself to promoting the music of Bohuslav Martinů. The last farewell will take place on September 20, 2019 at 10.30 am in the Church of Sts. Alban in Burgrieden, Germany. As a memory of Eliška Nováková we publish Jarmila Mráčková's text published in Martinů Revue 2019/1 on the occasion of her 90th birthday.→ More
ISA19 Award for the best interpretation of Martinů's work for Quasi Duo
Award for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Bohuslav Martinů at International Summer Academy 2019 organized by Univerzität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna was given to the Quasi Duo (Marie Hasoňová - violin, Judita Škodová - cello) for their performance of Duo for Violin and Violoncello No. 2, H 371 by Bohuslav Martinů. International Summer Academy is the summer campus of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. This annual event sees more than 300 gifted students from all over the world come together for two weeks of master classes. The award is sponsored by the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation.→ More
Incantation by Martinů released with the new issue of BBC Music Magazine
The current issue of BBC Music Magazine comes out with an interesting Czech link on the front page. In addition to an extensive interview with Magdalena Kožená and Simon Rattle about their new project, it offers a cover album with Legends by Antonín Dvořák and Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 (Incantation) by Bohuslav Martinů performed by pianist Garrick Ohlsson and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra led by Ilan Volkov.→ More
The Greek Passion in Leeds
Opera North in Leeds began its season with the opera The Greek Passion by Bohuslav Martinů. The production of the first version of the opera, which was conducted by Garry Walker and directed by Christopher Alden, was premiered on September 14.→ More
60th Anniversary of Bohuslav Martinů’s Death
On 28 August, an act of remembrance and a concert will take place in Polička, hometown of Bohuslav Martinů, marking the 60th anniversary of his death. The programme begins at 16:45 by the composer’s grave.→ More
CD of the Month for Martinů's Songs
The successful album with Martinů's songs released by Supraphon (Songs on One Page, H 294, Songs on Two Pages, H 302, New Slovak Songs, H 126, and The New Chapbook, H 288), featuring soprano Martina Janková, baritone Tomáš Král and pianist Ivo Kahánek, received CD of the Month by the German music magazine Opernwelt. It is yet another of the praiseworthy reviews and awards of magazines and music web sites, such as Diapason, Le Monde, MusicWeb International, or Gramophone.→ More
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