GERALDINE MUCHA CHAMBER MUSIC

 

 

CHAMBER MUSIC

GERALDINE MUCHA

 

String Quartet No. 1

1. I. Variations on a Hucul Folk-Song

2. II. Dumka

3. III. Arkan

Stamic Quartet

 

4. Variations on an Old Scottish Song

5. Tempo di Mazurka

6. Karel František Josef

7. Minna Loveday Decandole

8. Freddie Decandole

9. Lullaby for Alisdair

10. For Erika

Patricia Goodson, piano

 

11. Naše cesta / Our Journey

Jan Marchat, flute

Alena Grilová, piano

 

12. String Quartet No. 2

Stamic Quartet

 

13. Wind Quintet

Prague Wind Quintet

 

14. Epitaph in Memory of Jiří Mucha

Vilém Veverka, oboe

Jan Marchat, flute

Stamic Quartet

 

 

 

Geraldine Mucha (Thomson, her maiden name) was born in London, although she always considered herself a Scotswoman. During the Second World War, she met and married an exiled, Czech young man, the writer of books and films Jiří Mucha, and son of Alfons Mucha. In 1945 they moved to Prague, in the old, soon-to-be Communist, Czechoslovakia. Beautiful music and really interesting booklet.