Cover art for music album featuring a drawing of a piano player and text: Bohuslav Martinů: Chamber Music 1937–1945 (Brilliant Classics), featuring Ambroise Aubrun (violin) alongside Jocelyn Aubrun (flute) and Steven Vanhauwaert (piano)
Sep. 15, 2026

The new album Bohuslav Martinů: Chamber Music 1937–1945 (Brilliant Classics), featuring Ambroise Aubrun (violin) alongside Jocelyn Aubrun (flute) and Steven Vanhauwaert (piano), has been recognized with three of Europe's most prestigious classical-music distinctions:

  • CHOC de Classica - the highest award of France's Classica magazine
  • Five Stars in Musica, Italy's leading classical-music magazine, naming it among the recordings of the month
  • "Disque du jour" (Disc of the Day) on France Musique, France's national classical radio station, which reaches more than one million listeners daily

The recording brings together three chamber works Martinů composed in exile, played, in the words of Classica, at "the summit of the discography."

From the Classica review:

"The Aubrun brothers, Ambroise and Jocelyn, abetted by pianist Steven Vanhauwaert, lay claim to Martinů's music with an elegance and a precision that elevate them to the summit of the discography."

"As much at home in Bach as in Éric Tanguy, Ambroise Aubrun approaches Martinů with a simplicity of tone and a keenness of interpretation that lend the same eloquence to moments of quiet contemplation as to those driven by rhythmic vitality. The velvet of deep, glinting hues that he weaves on his Venetian instrument — a Matteo Goffriller — only adds to our pleasure."