馬替努 大提琴與鋼琴作品全集 沃契克 Martinu Complete Works for Cello

(2CD) 馬替努: 大提琴作品全集(奏鳴曲/變奏曲/短曲/夜曲)

威廉.沃契克 大提琴

丹尼斯.林尼克 鋼琴

2025年8月份留聲機雜誌編輯推薦最佳新片之一

In 1910, when the director of the Prague Conservatoire expelled Martinu from the school because of his ""incorrigible negligence"", he assuredly had no idea the 20-year-old youth would become one of the most famous composers of the 20th century. Three years later, the young student sold his violin in Paris to be able to concentrate fully on composition. About his beginnings, the composer later declared that he was ""simply unable to learn those things"", and instead had to ""come up with my own feeling somehow"". Martinu devoted himself more to the cello than any other composer of his generation, writing both chamber works and concertos. The present recording of his complete works for cello and piano was made at the Musik Akademie Basel, just a few kilometres from Schonenberg, where Martinu spent the last years of his life. The works were mostly written for famous cellists who were often the composer's friends (Frank, Cassadó, Fournier, Honegger, Piatigorsky, Sadlo etc.). He wrote five compositions in a lighter character in Paris between 1929 and 1931. The more serious works (three sonatas and two compositions in variation form) were written between 1939 and the end of the composer's life; the Variations on a Slovak Folk Song became his last chamber work, and in it one hears unmistakeably his yearning for the homeland to which he could not return. The young Vilem Vlcek has enjoyed success at competitions (victory at the Penderecki Cello Competition in Krakow, the 2023 Markneukirchen International Instrumental Competition, the 2022 Rahn Musikpreis etc.) and has worked with top orchestras (the Czech Philharmonic, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Chamber Orchestra etc.), but above all, what wins over listeners is the expressive depth of his playing, inspired on this recording by the musicianship of the wonderful pianist Denis Linnik.

Bohuslav Martinu – a matter of the heart for Vilem Vlcek

CD 1

Bohuslav Martinu

Cello Sonata No. 1, H 277

1. I. Poco allegro 05:44

2. II. Lento 05:55

3. III. Allegro con brio 05:37

Bohuslav Martinu

4. Variations on a Theme of Rossini, H 290 08:34

Bohuslav Martinu

Cello Sonata No. 2, H 286

5. I. Allegro 07:49

6. II. Largo 06:57

7. III. Allegro commodo 05:25

Bohuslav Martinu

Cello Sonata No. 3, H 340

8. I. Poco andante – Moderato 07:37

9. II. Andante 06:42

10. III. Allegro, ma non presto 05:38

Bohuslav Martinu

11. Variations on a Slovak Folk Song, H 378 09:56

CD 2

Bohuslav Martinu

Seven Arabesques, H 201

1. I. Poco allegro 01:41

2. II. Moderato 02:16

3. III. Andante moderato 02:22

4. IV. Allegro 02:11

5. V. Adagio 03:10

6. VI. Allegretto 01:33

7. VII. Allegretto moderato 01:44

Bohuslav Martinu

Suite miniature, H 192

8. I. Moderato 01:39

9. II. Poco andante 02:09

10. III. Poco moderato 01:27

11. IV. Andante 01:47

12. V. Poco allegro 01:17