Martinu, B :: Promenades (1940)
Martinu, B
Bohuslav Martinu presents the Promenades, for flute, violin, and piano (or harpsichord - Martinu particularly enjoyed the modern sounds he could create on an older instrument) in a Barenreiter edition.
'The Promenades begin innocently enough with a Bachian allegro and aria, both spiced with mildly piquant dissonances and violin glissandos. The instrumentation is the same as the preceding work, except that the piano has been replaced by a clattering harpsichord. Following the gentle aria, there is an abrupt change of mood. Suddenly, we enter a bizarre, nightmarish world. This music was, after all, written in 1939 while the composer was living in Paris. The scherzo is a brief (under two minutes), but spooky danse macabre, while the finale is bitter and edgy a mad moto perpetuo propelled by the relentless twanging of the harpsichord. The conclusion anticipates the sound world of Philip Glass; fortunately this 'minimalist' passage is brief [...] precisely the strident tone that Martinu intended.'
- Tom Godeli, classical.net 1997
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