In this thoughtfully curated concert with commentary, scholars-in-residence Michael Beckerman and Aleš Březina present chamber works by Martinů and his gifted composition student Vítězslava Kaprálová, with whom he was in love.
Folk idioms permeate Kaprálová’s accomplished First String Quartet, as they do so much of Martinů’s music, from the six instrumental miniatures of Les Rondes, which include some of his earliest uses of Moravian folk song, to the Variations on a Slovak Theme for cello and piano, written just months before he died. Yet Martinů’s characteristic sound reflects a wide and eclectic range of influences. The composer reveals a Stravinskyan …
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