The Little Lullaby (Malá ukolébavka, H 122bis) of 1919 is composed in a very effective arch form, in which the active middle section could be imagined as depicting a restless child struggling against the soporific qualities of the music, and the final non-ending as he drifts off to sleep. Written in Polička during a summer return from Paris in 1929.
The recording of the composition was released for the first time by Naxos in 2009 (Martinů: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 7 – A Fairy-Tale of Goldilocks, From Andersen's Fairy-Tales; Giorgio Koukl).
Mark Gresham and Cary Lewis, Martinů: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 7 – A Fairy-Tale of Goldilocks, From Andersen's Fairy-Tales; Giorgio Koukl).