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Serial:
  92.523
Title:
  Martinu: Complete Cello Sonatas - Wick, Devoyon
Description:
  Bohuslav Martinu: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-3

Tilmann Wick (cello)
Pascal Devoyon (piano)
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Genre:
  Classical - Chamber
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  Stereo/Multichannel
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  Hybrid
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Review by JJ June 8, 2007 (7 of 8 found this review helpful)
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Auteur de plus de 400 œuvres, le compositeur Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) fit quasiment toute sa carrière en France. Le musicologue Harry Halbreich souligne par ailleurs que Martinu "composa vers 1910, sous le choc de la découverte de Pelléas et Mélisande, quantité d'œuvres demeurées inédites". De la puissante rythmique de ces premières partitions "au lyrisme plus ample et plus étendu de sa période américaine, puis au néo-impressionnisme de ses ultimes années", Martinu laissa notamment sept quatuors à cordes ainsi que des œuvres lyriques comme Juliette ou la Clé des songes. La trilogie de ses sonates pour violoncelle et piano est un ensemble d'œuvres datant de la maturité du compositeur. La première sonate H. 277 composée à Paris en 1939 déploie un lyrisme passionné aux inquiétudes apparentes liées à la guerre imminente. La seconde sonate H. 286 datant de 1941 fut composée aux Etats-Unis. Cette fois le discours se fait plus sombre et plus angoissé. La troisième et ultime sonate pour violoncelle et piano H. 340 nous ramène aux sources tchèques du compositeur. Elle fut écrite en 1952. Le violoncelliste Tilmann Wick et le pianiste Pascal Devoyon nous offrent ici un remarquable enregistrement de ces œuvres de chambres incontournables. Leur discours trouve un équilibre parfait aussi bien dans la fougue des élans passionnés que dans la profondeur des sentiments évoqués. Un grand disque Martinu à la prise de son mettant les instruments au premier plan, dont l'origine est un master PCM.

Jean-Jacques Millo

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Review by JW June 10, 2007 (3 of 4 found this review helpful)
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Translated from the original review by Jean-Jacques Millo

With more than 400 works to his name the composer Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) lived most of his career in France. The musicologist Harry Halbreich notes that Martinu "composed until 1910 almost in shock of the by then previously undiscovered opera of "Pelléas and Mélisande". From the forceful rythmns of his first pieces "with a sprawling lyricism influenced by his American period, until the neo-impressionism of his later years", Martinu left us seven string quartets as well as opera's such as 'Julliete, or the Key to Dreams'. The trilogy of Sonata's for cello and piano forms a body of work that is an indication of the maturity of the composer. The first Sonata H. 277 was composed in Paris in 1939 and displays both enthusiasm and an unsettled feeling obviously hinting at the imminent war years. The second Sonata H. 286 dates back to 1941 and was composed in the United States. This time we find the mood more sombre and anxious. The third and last Sonata for cello and piano H. 340 tells us something of the Czech origins of the composer. It was written in 1952. The celloist Tilmann Wick and pianist Pascal Devoyon provide us with a rendering that strikes a good balance between the passion and the depth of the moods invoked by these pieces. A great Martinu disc of PCM origin which puts the instruments on the first row.

Jean-Jacques Millo
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Works: 3  

Bohuslav Martinu - Cello Sonata No. 1, H 277
Bohuslav Martinu - Cello Sonata No. 2, H 286
Bohuslav Martinu - Cello Sonata No. 3, H 340