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.

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Martinů. Páleníček. Beethoven · Prague Philharmonia

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