Thanks for the upload and congratulations to all concerned for programming this work. For a major 20thc composer, Martinu is far too neglected in many countries and it's time this situation was corrected!
I wondered why it was not presented to me by my teacher. It turns out that it was only published (according to the source I used) in 1978. I had stopped playing seriously around then, and only continued to play at all for a few more years. Very nice. And, of course, Antoine Tamestit is a phenomenal violist.
Jai assisté à ce concert, je suis très heureuse de retrouver cette vidéo ici, c'était un grand moment d'émotion avec cet altiste fabuleux et l'orchestre du capitole. Je vous remercie pour le partage de la video .!
Martinu wrote a lot so it sometimes happans that two pieces look like oe another. But there are haighlights in this important work throughput and this Rapsody Concerto is indoubtedly one of them through the attention paid to the specific tone of the viola and its equilibrium with the orchestra.
Dans la "poursuite" de la tradition de la musique romantique. 💚 Pour ma part, j'ai un penchant pour la musique "ancienne", sacrée même en général, mais je ne boude absolument rien, et certainement pas cette oeuvre, sachant ,qui plus est, quel est le parcours de Martinu; fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohuslav_Martinů💋
The whole first movement is meant to be an asymmetrically lilting folk dance from Moravia, Martinu's birthplace. Unfortunately, conductor and orchestra make gooey spaghetti-cheese out of the introduction, without any lilting phrasing. The solo viola is meant to represent a kind of "Harold in Moravia", (as the solo viola in Berlioz: “Harold in Italy”) a poetic soul singing and dancing for the folks in the landscape that surrounds them. Antoine Tamestit is one of the best viola soloists around. His mastery of his instrument is remarkable. He paints with a variety of tone colors but his tone projection often lacks core and grounding. This is also apparent in the lively rhythmic sections when he breathlessly and aggressively drives ahead to reach a target point, instead of fulfilling the journey to the goal with bouncy rhythms and fun. There is more depth and fine detail in Martinu’s Rhapsody-Concerto than what was presented in this performance.
