Agnieszka Kopacka, Ian Hobson & Sinfonia Varsovia - Martinů: Early Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 (2018)

Tracklist
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01. Vanishing Midnight, H. 131: I. Satyrs in the Wood of Cypress
02. Vanishing Midnight, H. 131: II. The Blue Hour
03. Vanishing Midnight, H. 131: III. Shadows
04. Balade "Vila na mori", H. 97
05. Sen o minulosti, H. 124
This series of first-ever recordings of Martinů's early orchestral works has already uncoveredmuch delightful music; this third release moves everything up a gear.
The symphonic triptych Vanishing Midnight (1922) will prove a revelation: a big-hearted work ofbreathtaking opulence and striking confidence.
Vanishing Midnight is as exquisitely lovely as it is powerful and dramatic - Martinů's first truemasterpiece, but it is also his last full-on engagement with Impressionism
The two shorter works here - Ballade: Villa by the Sea and Dream of the Past - are colourful andatmospheric tone-poems, pieces of real substance and major discoveries in their own right.