Martinu/ Nouzovsky/ Wyss - Cello SonatasBohuslav Martinu is one of the world famous composers of the 20th century. Inspired by his homeland's tribulations, he composed his Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1, dedicated to the brilliant French cellist Pierre Fournier. In America he found friends of Czech extraction. One of them was Frank Rybka, who earlier studied music in Brno with Leo Jancek. The Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 is dedicated to Rybka. The Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 3 was

"The Hoffnung Astronomical Music Festival"

Presented for the first time on vinyl since it's release in 1992

Mike Leander

which we trust provides a substantial and representative cross-section of his career output

Including several extended performances where the full range of the group's skill and style can be fully appreciated

with a driving blues-flavoured approach

which was voted one of Rolling Stone's Greatest Songs of All Time

born in 1939

They represented a highly individual and idiosyncratic strand of country music

"Surrender"

Maxim Vengerov

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