Martinu - Complete Works for String Trio Fulfilled By AEC originally for piano and Baritone

originally for piano and Baritone from his song cycle Songs of Travel

the fine background harmonies of Charlie Barnwell

his generation witnessed the brutality of the 1970s liberation struggle

6 on my laptop when I was on tour last year

and a prizewinner of the Walter Naumburg Competition in New York

Martinu - Complete Works for String Trio Fulfilled By AEC originally for piano and BaritoneThere are several parallels to be found in the lives of the Southern French composer Darius Milhaud (1892 1974) and the Moravian Bohemian composer Bohuslav Martinu (1890 1959). Both needed the metropolis of Paris, that seething artistic melting pot after the First World War, in order to refine their originality; both were open to all kinds of musical styles, from South American folklore to North American jazz through to Bachian counterpoint; finally,