Martinů. Páleníček. Beethoven
The Professed House, a historic Baroque building in Prague's Lesser Town, was originally built for the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) between 1674 and 1691. It houses a beautiful Baroque refectory, now used for chamber concerts.
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SMETANA TRIO
Markéta Janoušková — violin
Jan Páleníček — cello
Jitka Čechová — piano
Jan Brabec — clarinet (guest)
Josef Páleníček
Little Suite for Clarinet and Piano
Bohuslav Martinů
Trio No. 2 in D minor, H 327
Josef Páleníček
Suita Piccola for Violin and Piano
Bohuslav Martinů
Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, H 326
Ludwig van Beethoven
Trio in D major, op. 70 — "Geister" (The Ghost)
The friendship between Bohuslav Martinů and Josef Páleníček is not as well-known as Martinů's friendship with Jan Novák or Vítězslava Kaprálová. It is all the more noteworthy because Páleníček, one of our greatest pianists of the 20th century and a preeminent performer of Beethoven, Janáček and Martinů, met Martinů already in Paris in the 1930s. Then their paths in life did not cross until the very end of Martinů's life, spent in Swiss exile, where Páleníček visited him.
