Martinu/ Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt - Martinu: Concertino - Concert pour Trio - Partita/Suite No. 1The works chosen for this recording were written in the early nineteen thirties, a particularly creative period in Martinu's life. He wrote about this time in a short autobiographical sketch in 1945: "To tell the truth, I am a concerto grosso type. Most textbooks only offer a superficial description of the form, except for the fact that the solo instruments alternate with the orchestra. But there is so much more to this[].

For this five-album set

and whilst still employed as a performing musician

Gottfried Zimmermann opened his famous coffee house in Leipzig in 1715 and organised concerts there

Take Out Some Insurance (J

" On the one hand because of the Tchaikovsky piece with the same title (in English "Passionate Confession")

Many of them sound like garish clown music

as well as for recording classic songs like "Baby Please Don't Go" and "Crawling King Snake"

Lora Findlay's distinctive artwork has similarly been given a fresh lick of paint

is headed with the quotation: "Haydn is the way to Heaven

Leonore's Töt erst sein Weib

We have had some impressive recordings from this orchestra in the past but this one is among the finest

two years later