Bohuslav Martinů: Les Fresques de Piero della Francesca (1955)

[@lucfournier4228]

Un chef d'œuvre à emporter sur l'île déserte...❤❤❤

[@Kelly-es7su]

Chef d’œuvre !❤❤❤

[@GenesisProgressive72]

I'm from Arezzo, the Tuscan city where the frescoes inspiring the piece are located. It's the first time I'm listening to Martinu. What can I say? Besides the music's beauty in itself, it is a strange and (positively) haunting feeling to think of its connection with the "average", daily places of our city we take as something perfectly normal and expectable.

[@theosalvucci8683]

Wow. What a gift. The Arezzo frescoes are magnificent.

[@gerardbegni2806]

One of the most famous and exciting pieces of Martinu, written in his last period.

[@gerardbegni2806]

One of the most attractive works of Martinu. He was gereatly inspired by the frescos of Piero delle Francesca in Arezzo. His main inspiration is the meeting of King Salomon and queen of Saba, and Dream of Emperor Constantin. The rather large orchestra (four flutes) is often used in a very glittring way, showing that Martinu developed his own language also in the domain of orchestration. The work was created by the Vienna Orchestra Kubelik on August 26, 1956.. It is undisputedly one of the absolute masterworks of Martinu. Needless to say, Martinu uses a neoclassical tonal style which everybody is free to enjoy or not. My own opinion id that we have to remind open minded and acknowledge that there are masterworks on ech side. .

[@davidluck1678]

amazing piece....evokes sheer existential terror in one measure, shimmering beauty in the next.

[@darrylschultz9395]

I can picture the scene as the listener goes from trembling behind the couch to then suddenly emerging from that spot as a ballet dancer floating gracefully through the air; then it's quickly back again to their spot behind the couch, rivers of sweat pouring profusely down their face as they grimace wildly with eyes darting this way and that! Seconds later there's no trace of any of that, the expression is serene as they're up again, putting Nureyev to shame!

[@grandepittore]

I have always loved this since I discovered it aged 22. It's so strangely atmospheric and quite unique in the 20th century repertoire. Thanks for posting the whole thing at last. The CM version was previously only in 3 parts on KZbin, as you know. Great!!!

[@DavidA-ps1qr]

Masterful orchestration. Only Martinu could achieve these unmistakable layers.

[@SpudWil]

I would never use Martinu to slap Mahler - perhaps my two favourite composers, and not born, as the crow flies, too far from one another! Martinu is gaining ground all the time: listen to this, Symphony 4, Spalicek, the cello & piano concertos... so much radiant, life-enhancing music!

[@TheVaughan5]

Point taken, perhaps I was a bit too hard on Mahler but I just can't get into his music in the way others do. I guess I would be less anti if we were not given such an over emphasis on performing his music at the expense of other composers, who like Martinu, have been in the shadows for far too long now.

[@irmavargas4786]

SpudWil Mahler y Martinu - 2 compositores tan geniales y diferentes pero los DOS geniales...

[@Cardossian]

Very nice. Thanks for posting!

[@briangriffin4515]

At its best -as here- Martinu's music seems to have the pulse of life itself - of 'libido' in the Jungian sense ...

[@MrAntimes]

grazie mille

[@irmavargas4786]

Mansur Ushurma igualmente, hermano

[@TheVaughan5]

Anyone listening to this music for the first time and appreciating it's greatness I would urge to try "The Epic of Gilgamesh" (also on Y.T.) Takes a bit more careful listening but the rewards are there, another master composition from Martinu.

[@SMECHOULAN]

Martinu recycles some themes from previous works here.