Composer: Georges Bizet, Paul Hindemith, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinů, Josef Mysliveček, Sergei Prokofiev, Charles Camille Saint-Saëns
Performer: André Navarra, Ladislav Černý, Pavel Štěpán, Ilja Hurník, Ladislav Jásek
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Harmonia Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Martin Turnovský
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Supraphon
Catalogue: SU40822
Release: 2012
Size: 625 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Martinů: Symphony No. 4
01. II. Poco moderato. Poco allegro
02. III. Scherzo. Allegro vivo
03. VI. Largo
04. VII. Poco allegro
Martinů: Concertino for Cello, Brass, Piano and Battery
05. I. Allegro-Moderato-Andante-Allegro
Ibert: Concerto for Cello and Wind Instruments
06. I. Pastorale
07. II. Romance
08. III. Gigue
Hindemith: Trauermusik
09. Langsam. Lento
10. Ruhig bewegt. Poco mosso
11. Lebhaft. Vivo
12. Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit. Sehr langsam. Largo
Martinů: Tre ricercari
13. Allegro poco
14. Largo
15. Allegro
Mysliveček: Symphony for Strings in D-Sharp Major
16. I. Allegro con spirito
17. II. Andante
18. III. Presto
Bizet: Childrens Games, Op. 22
19. March
20. Lullaby
21. Impromptu
22. Duo
23. Galop
Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des animaux
24. Introduction et Marche royale du lion
25. Poules et coqs
26. Hémiones
27. Tortues
28. L´éléphant
29. Kangourous
30. Aquarium
31. Personnages á longues oreilles
32. Le coucou au fond des bois
33. Voliére
34. Pianistes
35. Fossiles
36. Le Cygne
37. Finale
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 63
38. I. Allegro moderato
39. II. Andante assai
40. III. Allegro, ben marcato
A Czech conductor who excelled worldwide. Martin Turnovsky recordings for the first time on CD.
Paradoxically, a greater opportunity to witness the artistry of the remarkable Czech conductor Martin Turnovsky, whose teachers included Karel Ančerl and George Szell, has been afforded to audiences abroad.
After winning the international conducting competition in Besancon (1958), he had to wait almost a decade for the real launch of his international career, since the totalitarian regime in Czechoslovakia prevented him from travelling around the world.
He was chief conductor of the Dresdner Staatskapelle and Staatsoper, and, after emigrating to the West at the end of the 1960s, led the Operas in Oslo and Bonn, guest-conducted the New York Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and other major orchestras. Only after the regime change in Czechoslovakia in 1989 could he renew his work with orchestras on home soil. In the 1960s he made numerous recordings for Supraphon. The majority of those presented on these discs are now available on CD for the first time. They bear witness to Turnovsky’s distinct talent, which several years later would dazzle to the full in front of the world’s most renowned orchestras.