Janácek & Martinu: Paths / Špacek, Jamník

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Label
Supraphon
Release Date
May 6, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Leos Janacek, Bohuslav Martinu
    • PERFORMER
      Josef Spacek, Tomas Jamnik
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 06, 2022
    • UPC
      099925430429
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SU4304-2
    • LABEL
      Supraphon
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Adagio - Con moto

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Tomáš Jamník

    2. II. Con moto

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Tomáš Jamník

    3. III. Con moto - Vivo - Andante

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Tomáš Jamník

    4. IV. Con moto (Adagio) - Più mosso

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Tomáš Jamník

    5. I. Moderato

      Composer: Erwin Schulhoff

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Tomáš Jamník

    6. II. Zingaresca

      Composer: Erwin Schulhoff

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Tomáš Jamník

    7. III. Andantino

      Composer: Erwin Schulhoff

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Tomáš Jamník

    8. IV. Moderato

      Composer: Erwin Schulhoff

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Tomáš Jamník

    9. I. Allegro con fuoco

      Composer: Gideon Klein

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Tomáš Jamník

    10. II. Lento

      Composer: Gideon Klein

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Tomáš Jamník

    11. I. Preludium: Andante moderato

      Composer: Bohuslav Martinů

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Tomáš Jamník

    12. II. Rondo: Allegro con brio

      Composer: Bohuslav Martinů

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Tomáš Jamník

    13. I. Allegretto

      Composer: Bohuslav Martinů

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Tomáš Jamník

    14. II. Adagio

      Composer: Bohuslav Martinů

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Tomáš Jamník

    15. III. Poco allegro

      Composer: Bohuslav Martinů

      Performer: Josef Špaček, Tomáš Jamník


Paths – crossing and diverging, those we choose ourselves and those that are predestined and inevitable: through this prism the violinist Josef Špacek and the cellist Tomáš Jamník view the music of four Czech composers written within a mere 35 years of the 20th century. Janácek, enraptured by the idea of Pan-Slavism, was led by desire to Russia, a country where he found inspiration for his string quartet (here in an ambitious arrangement for two instruments), in a novella by Tolstoy. Ervín Schulhoff, an admirer and friend of Janácek’s (to whom he dedicated the duo featured on the present album), invested his hopes in Soviet Russia, yet this did not save him from death in a Nazi concentration camp. A similar fate (incarceration in Theresienstadt and Fürstengrube) befell Gideon Klein, another gifted and promising composer, who was murdered by the Nazis at the age of 25. Just two incomplete movements of his remarkable Duo for Violin and Cello have survived. The paths pursued by Bohuslav Martinu – first driven by thirst for knowledge and then forced to flee the Nazis – led from Prague through Paris to the USA, before returning to Europe; yet circumstances did not allow him to see his beloved country again. Martinu wrote his Duo for Violin and Cello No. 2 towards the very end of his life – and it also concludes the album by two brilliant artists. A virtuoso, profound and forcible recording indeed. Virtuosity, vivid joy and deep sorrow – the stories of four composers as reflected in their music.