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Some of us critics consider the Swiss composer Frank Martin to be a neglected master, one of the 20th century's most effective composers of emotionally stirring and intellectually satisfying music. Martin himself conducted recordings of all three of these major works, but only the Maria-Triptychon remains available. In the others, Matthias Bamert has a more dignified soloist and a more responsive orchestra, along with considerably better recorded sound. If you love the best music of the 1900s, you'll want to hear these pieces, and Chandos has provided us with a very effective presentation, part of an excellent Martin series. --Leslie Gerber
| ARTIST: | Frank Martin, Matthias Bamert, Duncan Riddell, Lynda Russell |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Chandos |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Ste from Der Sturm: Ov: Adagio molto tranquillo, Ste from Der Sturm: Prospero 'Mein Ariel, hast du, der Luft nur ist...', Ste from Der Sturm: Allegretto alla marcia, Ste from Der Sturm: Epilogue: Larghetto, Maria-Triptychon: Ave Maria: Adagio, Maria-Triptychon: Magnificat: Andante energico, Maria-Triptychon: Stabat Mater: Molto lento, Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann: 1. 'Ist alls zu End das Freudenmahl', Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann: 2. 'Ah Gott, wie graust mir vor dem Tod', Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann: 3. 'Ist als wenn eins gerufen hatt' Lento, Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann: 4. 'So wolt ich ganz vernichtet sein' Molto lento, Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann: 5. 'Ja! Ich glaub: solches hat Er vollbracht' Andante con moto, Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann: 6. 'O ewiger Gott!' Largo |
| UPC: | 095115941126 |
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3 Beautiful Vocal Works, 3 Excellent Performances Frank Martin wrote some of the most substantial music, both instrumental & vocal, of the 20th century, & this is one of the best recent additions to the catalog of his works on CD - for me, the outstanding disc in the Chandos series with Matthias Bamert & the London Philharmonic. These 3 vocal works, one each from the 1940s, 50s & 60s, are not only individually beautiful & profoundly moving, but show Martin's skill in setting texts secular, sacred & religiously inspired. Though French was Martin's first language - & he set it superbly - from 1940 on he composed a number of important works on German texts (including Rilke's narrative cycle Der Cornet0 & all the pieces here show that he brought comparable sensitivity to the subtleties of that language - as he did to the Latin of the Stabat Mater, the 3rd "panel" of his Marian Tryptych. Conducting, playing & recording are first-rate, & the 3 soloists are outstanding; having lived with this disc for several years I can say the performances hold up beautifully. Should the composer-conducted versions of the 2 baritone pieces (with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & the Berlin Philharmonic) return on CD, they will be very welcome, but David Wilson-Johnson's interpretations, sung with beautiful tone & great feeling, stand on their own. (Fischer-Dieskau can be heard in a slightly abridged version of the excerpts from Der Sturm in a live recording from 1961, on Cascavelle VEL 2001, a somewhat rushed performance under Ernest Ansermet.) Lynda Russell & Duncan Riddell are just as fine in the Maria-Triptychon; the composer's 1970 live version (Jecklin-Disco JD 645-2) is more propulsively conducted, & it is good to have a performance with the soloists for whom Martin wrote the work, Irmgard Seefried & Wolfgang Schneiderhan, but the boxy mono sound can't begin to do justice to the subtle, luminous colors of this work's orchestration. Don't hesitate to add this disc to your collection!