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Review title: Martinu's amazing symphonies
Product review: Bernstein's original Mahler symphony recordings were detonating when I was a clueless college kid; they helped me become somewhat clue-full. Where do you go from these titanic, Beethovenian consciousness dramas?Well, Bohuslav Martinu originated in the same West-Slavic region as Mahler. He was prolific in numbers of compositions, not in their length -- more Haydn than Beethoven. And his external connection is Paris 1920-30s not Weimar-Vienna 1890-1910. So his six symphonies, given during and right after WW II, are both nothing like Mahler symphonies -- and an illuminating companion to them. Schumann compared to Beethoven? Yet they are filled with the terrible drama of the time, even as the first business is always making music. I like them better and better. Performances well conceived and played.
