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Kaprálová - Variations sur le Carillon de l'Église Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Op. 16 (Karatas)

Vítězslava Kaprálová: Variations sur le Carillon de l'Église Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Op. 16 Leonie Karatas, piano. From the album "La Vita" published by EuroArts. An eclectic set of variations on a very short theme: the bells of a church in Paris, where Kaprálová lived at the time. Composer Bohuslav Martinů held Kaprálová in high regard (and interestingly enough, the two actually had an affair for a while), writing to her about the finale of this piece in rather excitable prose: "one must have strong hands for the end of this masterpiece and the Andante maestoso must be fffortissimaso and that is what’s beautiful about it; let’s sacrifice the piano, let’s go and cut the piano to small pieces, it must have the breadth as if all the bells of Paris were ringing, as if something were happening and the earth were shaking . . . then the main theme comes back and after that is subito and that’s it, although there is still a semplice, and I regret it so much because in that distance it was so beautiful but we have now already arrived at the cover of the score" (from Erik Entwistle's Kápralová Reader, cited in the Kápralová Society Journal, see http://www.kapralova.org/journal32.pdf). I recommend this very interesting discussion by Erik Entwistle (https://www.musicweb-international.co... , which is mostly about Martinů's Julietta, but it mentions this piece also. Apparently Martinů associated Kaprálová with the titular character of that opera, and so the main theme of that piece seems to become a sort of leitmotif for their relationship with each other (allegedly, at her tragically early death at 25, her last words were "It is Julietta"). According to Entwistle, the second movement of Martinů's Concertino for Piano and Orchestra, H. 269, is a quotation of the third variation of this piece. 0:00 - Theme. Andante 0:13 - Variation I. Più vivo 1:39 - Variation II. Allegretto 2:14 - Variation III. Lento ma non troppo 3:24 - Variation IV. Quasi étude vivo 4:05 - Variation V. Choral 6:16 - Variation VI. Allegro 7:51 - Coda This video is made solely for promotional and educational purposes, and all rights are reserved by the original holders.