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Sun 4/23 @ 7:00a Cellist Natasha Farny performs Variations on a Slovak Theme

Classical 91.5 WXXO-FM | By rphinney

Published March 27, 2017 at 11:09 AM EDT

Bohuslav Martin?: Variations on a Slovakian Theme

(left to right) Natasha Farny, cello; Jitka Fowler Frankova, piano

Martin? wrote his Variations on a Slovakian Theme in March 1959 at Pratteln in Switzerland, where, now seriously ill, he was a guest of Paul Sacher and his wife. The folk-song Kde bych já ved?la (‘If I had known’) provides the theme, heard from the cello after the short piano introduction.

Recorded October 12, 2016 as part of the fall 2016 season of Live from Hochstein.