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All three works on this superbly performed and warmly recorded disc attest to Frank Martin's lifelong passion for the music of Bach. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 24th Mar 2008
Catalogue No: 1733930
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 57 minutes

Martin, F: Polyptyque (1973)

Work length24:08

$5.10

$6.90

Muriel Cantoreggi (violin)
German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Christoph Poppen
Recorded: 2006-02-16
Recording Venue: Funkhaus Halberg, Saarbrücken

Image des Rameaux

Track length3:53

$0.85

$1.15

Image de la Chambre haute

Track length5:27

$0.85

$1.15

Image de Juda

Track length2:10

$0.85

$1.15

Image de Géthsémané

Track length4:18

$0.85

$1.15

Image du Jugement

Track length3:54

$0.85

$1.15

Image de la Glorification

Track length4:26

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$1.15

Martin, F: Maria–Triptychon

Work length20:46

$2.55

$3.45

Muriel Cantoreggi (violin), Juliane Banse (soprano)
German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Christoph Poppen
Recorded: 2006-02-16
Recording Venue: Funkhaus Halberg, Saarbrücken

Ave Maria

Track length3:30

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$1.15

Magnificat

Track length10:16

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$1.15

Stabat Mater

Track length7:00

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$1.15

Martin, F: Passacaille (1944 / 1962)

Work length12:36

$0.85

$1.15

German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Christoph Poppen
Recorded: 2006-02-16
Recording Venue: Funkhaus Halberg, Saarbrücken

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Swiss composer Frank Martin’s exceptional symphonic works are finally given the recordings they deserve on this debut ECM album by the new German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under Christoph Poppen. Violinist Muriel Cantoreggi soars over two string orchestras on the radiant Polyptique and answers the beautiful soprano of Juliane Banse on the moving Maria-Tripytchon.

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July 2008

All three works on this superbly performed and warmly recorded disc attest to Frank Martin's lifelong passion for the music of Bach.

2010

Polyptyque is one of Martin's most impressive scores, with its impassioned lyricism held, as if in liquid suspension, by the cooler instrumental textures of solo violin and double string orchestra and the inner drama of its sequence of depictions from the Passion story. The alternating fast and slow movements cover by turns Christ's entry into Jerusalem (listen to the seething string textures representing the palm-waving crowd), the Last Supper, Judas, Gethsemane, Christ's scourging and – rather than Calvary – his glorification.
There is a link to the Maria-Triptychon (1967- 68) through the latter's finale, a setting of the 'Stabat mater dolorosa'. This triptych for soprano, violin and orchestra was written for the husband-and-wife duo of Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Irmgard Seefried, and opens with dovetailed settings of the Ave Maria and Magnificat, the latter forming an impressive, intense climax (ECM does not provide the texts in the booklet).
Unlike Polyptyque, however, Maria-Triptychon is a work that needs concentrated listening to secure its full impression.
The Passacaglia Martin wrote in 1944 for organ and orchestrated richly 18 years later has become one of his better-known works. Here, his devotion to Bach's music is made manifest in sound with organ-like sonorities surviving the transcription and a gripping Busonian power.
Poppen directs hugely impressive performances from his excellent soloists and orchestra. ECM's sound is, as usual, crystal clear and superb. A winner.

August 2008

Electrifying performances of three of Frank Martin's finest scores.

Frank Martin - Triptychon

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