Various - Jan Nov�k: Orchestral Music, Volume One

The music of the Moravian composer Jan Nov�k (1921�84) � a natural successor to Bohuslav Martin?, with whom he briefly studied � is nothing less than life-enhancing: it has Martin?�s rhythmic charge and his unflagging energy. And although Nov�k had such difficulties with the authorities in Communist Czechoslovakia that he chose to emigrate, there is an infectious optimism, a joie de vivre, in these three works that is instantly communicative.