Martinu: Piano Concertos Nos 2, 4

Star conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, who returns to Australia in November 2009 to lead Sydney Symphony in his Prokofiev Festival, is known as a great champion of Czech as well as Russian music. This release follows the great success of his acclaimed recording of Suk's Asrael Symphony (Gramophone Editor's Choice) and pays tribute to Bohuslav Martinu on the 50th anniversary of his death. The fourth Piano Concerto, subtitled Incantation, has been described by US journalist David Hurwitz as 'one of the 20th century's most exciting and unusual scores for piano and orchestra', while Frescos of Piero della Francesca remains one of Martinu's most performed works.

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