Title: Orchestral Music 1
Artist: Alice Rajnohova
Label: Toccata
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060113445513
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2022-06-03
Number of Discs: 1

The music of the Moravian composer Jan Novk (1921-84) – a natural successor to Bohuslav Martinu, with whom he briefly studied – is nothing less than life-enhancing: it has Martinu’s rhythmic charge and his unflagging energy. And although Novk had such difficulties with the authorities in Communist Czechoslovakia that he chose to emigrate, there is an infectious optimism, a joie de vivre, in these three works that is instantly communicative. A second volume of works for chamber orchestra (TOCC0565) is also currently in preparation.

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