Czech Philharmonic Piano Trio won Vienna Competition with recording of Bergerettes
Czech Philharmonic Piano Trio won its category of Vienna International Music Competition with the recording of Bergerettes, H 275 by Bohuslav Martinů. Jiří Vodička, Martin Kasík and Vladimír Petr shot the recoding in period style of the thirties.→ More
The second issue of this year's Martinů Revue was published!
The new issue of the Martinů Revue is hot off the press! Within its pages, another early Martinů ballet receives attention - this time Istar, H 130, completed 100 years ago this year. We celebrate some notable birthdays (Gregory Terian, Michael Crump, Michael Beckerman) as well as the launch of the latest volume in the Complete Edition, featuring Martinů's last two piano concertos. Cellist Petr Nouzovský looks back on the experience of recording all Martinů's works for his instrument, and we remember the oustanding contribution made by Václav Nosek in promoting some of Martinů's most obscure stage works.→ More
Photo project Martinů in America, part of the Czenglishman in New York exhibition, is available online
The exhibition Czenglishman in New York is open for the whole summer in Czech Center New York. The exhibition was put together by the Center in close cooperation with the Bohuslav Martinů Institute in Prague as part of the program cycle 2021: The Year of Martinů in America. It captures an important American period in the composer’s life (from 1941 to 1953 and briefly in 1956). An integral part of the exhibition is a special photo project entitled Martinů in America, put together by New York-based Czech photographer Kateřina Dvořáková Manková in the Spring of 2021. The photo project is available online too.→ More
Ariadne is the tenth volume of the Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition. The opera’s score was launched during Smetana’s Litomyšl
The Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition – an ambitious project of the Bohuslav Martinů Foundation, prepared by the Bohuslav Martinů Institute and published by Bärenreiter – continues its successful run with the tenth volume, the opera Ariadne. The launch of the publication was celebrated at Nové Hrady Castle on 30 June, in anticipation of the pre-premiere of Thrice Ariadne, a performance that encompasses three musical settings of the ancient myth, by Monteverdi, Benda, and – of course – Martinů.→ More
Harry Halbreich passed away five years ago
Five years ago, on 27 June 2016, the eminent Belgian expert on Czech music, musicologist Harry Halbreich, passed away after a long and difficult illness. He created the Bohuslav Martinů catalogue, comparable to the Köchel catalogue of W. A. Mozart's works. The catalogue was published in its second version in 2007 and became a synonym for reseach in Bohuslav Martinů's works across the entire world.→ More
Students of Janáček Academy performed The Voice of the Forest and Comedy on the Bridge
Opera performance students of Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno performed two one-act operas by Bohuslav Martinů. Premieres were given to empty halls due to the pandemic restrictions. Videorecording is available on YouTube channel of the Academy until the end of June.→ More
Conductor and dramaturge Václav Nosek would celebrate his 100th birthday
Conductor and dramaturge Václav Nosek would celebrate his 100th birthday→ More
The new Martinů Revue 3/2020 was just released
The last issue of the Martinů Revue of the 2020 was just released. You can find there an interview with Frank Peter Zimmerman and Jakub Hrůša about their new CD with Violin Concertos by Martinů, and a portrait of musicologist Jaroslav Mihule, who celebrated his 90th birthday recently.→ More
Martinů and Novák among the Top 10 recordings of 2020
David Hurwitz, the chief editor of ClassicsToday, published his Top10 recordings of the 2020 and the CD with Bouquet of Flowers by Martinů and the Philharmonic Dances by Jan Novák is among them!→ More
Just released: New CD with Martinů Violin Concertos by Frank Peter Zimmerman, Jakub Hrůša and Bamberger Symphoniker
New CD with Violin Concertos by Martinů played by Frank Peter Zimmerman was just released by BIS Records. On the recording, Zimmerman is accompanied by Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberger Symphoniker. The disc closes with a central work in the twentieth-century literature for solo violin, Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin.→ More
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