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« on: 15:28:18, 27-07-2007 »
Excellent choice!

The Cornet in CD Review on Saturday is a wonderful prelude to this series of Composer of the Week.

I think I'm going to visit the Frank Martin House myself one of these days.
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« Reply #1 on: 15:31:23, 27-07-2007 »
Quote from: pim_derks on 15:28:18, 27-07-2007
Excellent choice!

The Cornet in CD Review on Saturday is a wonderful prelude to this series of Composer of the Week.

I think I'm going to visit the Frank Martin House myself one of these days.

Oh excellent!  I am mainly familiar with his piano works; his preludes being especially quite lovely Cheesy
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« Reply #2 on: 15:39:20, 27-07-2007 »
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Oh excellent!  I am mainly familiar with his piano works; his preludes being especially quite lovely

You mean the 8 Preludes written for Lipatti? He never played them in public because he was already too ill. I know a picture of Frank Martin with Paul Sacher taken by Lipatti!
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« Reply #3 on: 16:18:20, 27-07-2007 »
I like the petite symphonie concertante for harp, harpsichord and piano (with 2 string orchestras).

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« Reply #4 on: 16:19:16, 27-07-2007 »
Quote from: pim_derks on 15:39:20, 27-07-2007
Quote from: increpatio on 15:31:23, 27-07-2007
Oh excellent!  I am mainly familiar with his piano works; his preludes being especially quite lovely

You mean the 8 Preludes written for Lipatti?

There were eight of them, though I can't remember the dedication off hand.  To my knowledge he only wrote the one set, so. There are only two recordings of his piano stuff to my knowledge; the first one released (I can't remember by whom) being rather poor (really, faaaar to tame and not lovely in the slightest), the second one (by Julie Adam) being rather more decent.
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« Reply #5 on: 17:01:56, 27-07-2007 »
Quote from: increpatio on 16:19:16, 27-07-2007
There are only two recordings of his piano stuff to my knowledge; the first one released (I can't remember by whom) being rather poor (really, faaaar to tame and not lovely in the slightest)

Do you mean the one by Werner Genuit?           
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« Reply #6 on: 21:08:29, 27-07-2007 »
I will look forward to this - only work i know of his is the Mass for double choir which i think is wonderful - be interested to hear some more of this composer  Smiley
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« Reply #7 on: 21:15:40, 27-07-2007 »
Quote from: pim_derks on 17:01:56, 27-07-2007
Quote from: increpatio on 16:19:16, 27-07-2007
There are only two recordings of his piano stuff to my knowledge; the first one released (I can't remember by whom) being rather poor (really, faaaar to tame and not lovely in the slightest)

Do you mean the one by Werner Genuit?           

No, I was talking of Klaus Sticken's CD I think (martin and honegger).  Not sure though, don't have it with me at the moment.
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« Reply #8 on: 21:25:05, 27-07-2007 »
Quote from: offbeat on 21:08:29, 27-07-2007
I will look forward to this - only work i know of his is the Mass for double choir which i think is wonderful - be interested to hear some more of this composer

I think this week's series might be very interesting to you, offbeat. Donald Macleod's selection is very good, I think, but I would have chosen the second movement from the Trio on Irish Folk Tunes. Other favourites of mine are the Harpsichord Concerto and the Villon Songs (both featured in CD Masters earlier this year). Don't miss the Saxophone Ballade (wonderful piece, it could have been composed today) and do catch The Cornet (masterpiece!) on CD Review tomorrow. Wink
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« Reply #9 on: 21:59:38, 27-07-2007 »
I'll be skipping my usual BBC7 comedies to catch this next week.  I only really know 'Cornet' and, surprisingly, there are excerpts from two versions other than the one I have (Jard van Nes, Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam, Reinbert de Leeuw) on in the next few days: one on CD Review tomorrow and another on CotW on Wednesday.  As has already been said, this is a major work. 

I seem to remember FM's Ballade for Trombone & Orchestra opening a concert at the RFH a decade or so ago.  I must have liked it or it wouldn't have stuck in my memory.  I can't remember what else was on gthe programme or even which orchestra it was, though a voice in the back of my head says LPO in the Franz Welzer-Möst days.
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« Reply #10 on: 22:12:21, 27-07-2007 »
Quote from: increpatio on 21:15:40, 27-07-2007
No, I was talking of Klaus Sticken's CD I think (martin and honegger).  Not sure though, don't have it with me at the moment.

I don't know that one. I was talking of a gramophone record issued by BASF in 1974 with the Trio on Irish Folk Songs, the Eight Preludes and the String Trio. The Irish Trio is played wonderful, the recording of the Preludes is a bit too "dry", I think.     
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