Martinu is a late musical love for me. I often thought I should like his music, but I never seemed to get properly into it. 2009 was the 50th anniversary of his death and Radio 3 kindly broadcast several of his works. I listened, I bought some CDs and came to realise how wonderful his music is. He started writing symphonies well into his musical career; I now adore all six of them. The first is sometimes bucolic, sometimes neo-classical, sometimes romantic and always effective in its use of symphonic material while showing a distinctive voice. I still have a lot to hear from this prolific composer.
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