Following his arrival in the United States in 1941, Bohuslav Martinu abandoned neo-Classicism and the "Back to Bach" aesthetic that marked many of his European works, and instead found a more personal idiom: derived in part from his admiration for Brahms, Dvorák, and other Romantic Classicists, but also freely developed through his own strongly lyrical impulses. The Sonatas Nos. 2 and 3 for cello and piano (1941 and 1952, respectively), are clearly in this new mode of expression, and Martinu's close observance of the rules ...
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Following his arrival in the United States in 1941, Bohuslav Martinu abandoned neo-Classicism and the "Back to Bach" aesthetic that marked many of his European works, and instead found a more personal idiom: derived in part from his admiration for Brahms, Dvorák, and other Romantic Classicists, but also freely developed through his own strongly lyrical impulses. The Sonatas Nos. 2 and 3 for cello and piano (1941 and 1952, respectively), are clearly in this new mode of expression, and Martinu's close observance of the rules of sonata form -- which approaches the point of stiff imitation -- is ameliorated by his expansive melodic writing for the cello, which is almost vocal in its contours. The Variations on a Slovak Folk Song (1959) and the Variations on a Theme of Rossini (1942) are more virtuosic fare, and show Martinu in a more entertaining vein; indeed, the transformations of Ked' bych já vedela are intensely showy and emotionally over the top, and the flashy manipulations of Rossini's theme from...
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