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It’s easy to hear the opening of Frank Martin’s Mass and think–Vaughan Williams, as in his own setting for a cappella double choir, composed in
We owe the huge number of Ansermet recordings to the
Most “concept albums” don’t work. This one does. Dubbed “Trios from our Homelands”, the three members of the Lincoln Trio have each chosen a piece
Frank Martin’s Mass, completed in 1926, premiered in 1963, and
Stokowski was such a fascinating character. In repertory pieces, he
In 1994 Jeremy Backhouse and his Vasari Singers recorded Herbert Howells’ Requiem and Frank Martin’s Mass for a British label called United. The packaging touted
Frank Martin’s Symphonie concertante is his big orchestra arrangement of his masterpiece for two string orchestras, harp, harpsichord, and piano. I won’t say that it
This is a very ambitious program, headlined by a work that has enjoyed many fine recorded performances, and filled out with several substantial pieces that
This second volume of Frank Martin Concertos contains one masterpiece (the Harpsichord Concerto), one attractive non-concerto (Passacaglia for strings), and one tough nut (Polyptique for
What began as an idea for a song cycle–a voice/piano setting of Rainer Maria Rilke’s prose-poem Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph
