Bohuslav Martinu

Though Bohuslav Martinu produced a lot of didactic material for the Piano not all of it has been published and many delightful works have remained unknown.In this ?Easy Piano Pieces and Dances? album Martinu?s four-part Piano cycle ?Crotchets and Quavers? composed in Paris in 1937 appears for the first time. It is devoted to changes of metre and tempo.The work previously known only from his correspondence was long considered lost until a manuscript copy resurfaced in Brno in 2011. The jazz piece ?One-step? composed in 1921 is also made accessible here for the first time. It hitherto only existed in the composer?sautograph.Along with these two ?discoveries? this album contains the dance pieces that Martinu composed in Policka in the 1920s as well as the three-part cycle ?Christmas? composed in Paris in 1927. These were previously available in ?Compositions for Policka?.Includes original Martinu works some published for the first timeForeword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and fingering by Lucie Harasim BernáEasy to moderately difficult pieces

Despite the extraordinary significance attributed to Bohuslav Martinu's 14 short Piano pieces entitled Puppets surprisingly little is known about the exact time and circumstances of their composition. It is however certain that these are the first works by Martinu which transcended his initial attempts at composition and they quickly found a publisher. Thanks to their lasting popularity particularly with young pianists they were published in numerous editions. The pieces take the characters of Italian commedia dell'arte as their theme: Pierrot Colombine and Harlequin. Also included are dance and ball scenes as well as scenesfrom the 'private lives' of the puppets. The three editions of Puppets were composed between 1912 and 1925 in reverse order. The works all differ from one another beginning with different aesthetic starting points and ending with Piano writing which gradually matures. Now the cycle is published for the first time in one volume. Martinu's Puppets now available in a collected edition- all three editions in one volume- newly revised based on available sources. New fingerings by Giorgio Koukl - preface and Critical Commentary by editor Ales Brezina (Cz./Ger./Eng./Fr.). Pohádka is included on ABRSM Piano Grade 6 syllabus 2017-2018

Bohuslav Martinu's Vigilia for full Organ completed and edited by Bedrich Janacek.

Two Impromptus for Harpsichord by Bohuslav Martinu. Set for the ABRSM Harpsichord grade 7 examination.

[Incantation - Klavierkonzert Nr. 4 (1955/56)] / Classique / Partition de poche / Agrafé /

[Incantation - Klavierkonzert Nr. 4 (1955/56)] / Classique / Réduction Piano : K. Solc / Partition / Agrafé /

kleine Stücke für Klavier-This collection of fourteen pieces together entitled Puppets plays an exceptional role in the catalogue of early works by Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) namely in that it represents the first works by Martinu which transcended his initial attempts at composition and quickly found a publisher.Thanks to their lasting popularity particularly with young pianists they were ultimately published in numerous editions. (The way the pieces are numbered which the composer verifiably accepted however does not correspond to their actual chronological order - they were in fact written in reverse order so that Puppets III camefirst while Puppets I is the latest in the series.)All three books of Puppets which emerged between the years 1912 and 1925 and despite their title differ from one another in their aesthetic approaches and progressive maturity are published by EditioBärenreiter in new revised urtext editions edited by Ales Brezina. This urtext edition with its relatively comprehensive preface describing the circumstances surrounding the advent of the work is supported by the latest research and an assessment of all known and accessible sources which the editor presents and clarifies in detail in his critical commentary to the second and third books of Puppets.Thus Puppet's Ball (No. 4) is also published in the third book in two separate versions - in a newer version based on the first edition on which Martinu very probably collaborated and which introduces apart from other changes entirely new music as well in the middle part and in an earlier version based on the autograph.Thanks to its witty musical ideas and the composer's empathy for children and their intellectual world Puppets has since its first edition always been highly popular among performers.Contents:Pierrots SerenadeWaltz of a Sentimental PuppetColombinePuppet's Ball