Martinu/ Koukl - Complete Songs Release:Complete Songs Naxos composing was always more important

composing was always more important to him than playing concerts

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this version features a duet with Harding and Richmond Fontaine vocalist Willy Vlautin

Martinu/ Koukl - Complete Songs Release:Complete Songs Naxos composing was always more importantBohuslav Martinu honed his songwriting craft in between composing larger orchestral works, his yearning for home reflected in the Four Songs to Czech Folk Texts written during desperate times in the Second World War. Sourced from previously unpublished manuscripts, this unique programme presents world premiere recordings of earlier songs written during summer holidays in Policka, as well as the Three Songs after Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, long