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Bohuslav MARTINU (1890-1959)
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 5
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine/Arthur Fagen
Rec 10-15 March 1995, Grand Studio, Ukraine National Radio, Kiev
NAXOS 8.553350 [60.31] Superbudget

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Martinu turned to composing symphonies only when he had passed the age of fifty. To some extent this was an opportunity occasioned by circumstance, since the Symphony No. 1 was commissioned by Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, after the composer had arrived in the United States from Europe, fleeing the Nazi threat during the early years of the war.

Having embarked upon his symphonic odyssey, Martinu found that the genre suited him, and he produced a symphony a year for the next four years, making five in all. Then he went on to complete his symphonic collection a few years later with his Sixth.

Arthur Fagen and the Ukraine orchestra recorded the Third