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Martin: Orchestral Works

Pierre Jamet (harp), Germaine Vaucher-Clerc (harpsichord), Doris Rossiaud (piano), Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin), Jakob Stampfli (bass), Pierre Mollet (baritone), Marga Höffgen (contralto), Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Ursula Buckel (soprano)

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Choeur Des Dames De...

The Petite Symphonie Concertante and Violin Concerto sound restricted under Ernest Ansermet. In Terra Pax, however, blazes with conviction. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 17th Aug 2018
Catalogue No: ELQ4824997
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Martin, F: Concerto for 7 wind instruments, timpani, percussion & string orchestra

Work length19:07

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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1961-09-30
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

1. Allegro

Track length6:20

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2. Adagietto

Track length6:04

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3. Allegro vivace

Track length6:43

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Martin, F: Etudes for string orchestra

Work length19:02

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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recorded: 1961-09-30
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

Ouverture

Track length4:01

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1. Pour l'enchainement des traits

Track length2:27

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2. Pour le pizzicato

Track length3:03

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3. Pour l'expression et le "sostenuto"

Track length3:28

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4. Pour le style fugue

Track length6:03

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Martin, F: Petite Symphonie Concertante

Work length19:36

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Pierre Jamet (harp), Germaine Vaucher-Clerc (harpsichord), Doris Rossiaud (piano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet

1. Adagio - Allegro con moto

Track length11:43

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2. Adagio

Track length4:03

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3. Allegretto alla marcia

Track length3:50

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Martin, F: Violin Concerto

Work length29:56

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Wolfgang Schneiderhan (violin)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet

1. Allegro tranquilo

Track length13:53

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2. Andante molto moderato

Track length8:45

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3. Presto

Track length7:18

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Martin, F: In terra pax

Work length46:45

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Jakob Stampfli (bass), Pierre Mollet (baritone), Marga Höffgen (contralto), Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Ursula Buckel (soprano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Choeur Des Dames De Lausanne, Union Chorale
Ernest Ansermet

1. Lorsque l'Agneau rompit le premier sceau

Track length5:28

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2. Mon Dieu, mon Dieu

Track length1:38

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3. Malheur au peuple chargé de péchés!

Track length1:45

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4. Eternel, Dieu de mon salut

Track length3:57

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5. Sentinelle, que dis-tu de la nuit?

Track length2:04

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6. Mais les ténèbres ne régneront pas toujours

Track length2:19

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7. Consolez, consolez mon peuple

Track length5:58

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8. Voice mon serviteur, mon élu

Track length9:28

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9. Heureux les affligés

Track length2:55

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10. Notre Père qui est aux cieux

Track length2:40

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11. Puis je vis un nouveau ciel

Track length8:33

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Ernest Ansermet’s complete Decca recordings of Frank Martin.

The Swiss conductor regarded his countryman Frank Martin as one of the two great composers of his time. He rejected the atonal system of music as ‘without musical meaning’ and even, late in life, turned against Igor Stravinsky, whom he had championed earlier in his career. In a 1962 interview, he claimed that only Martin and Benjamin Britten were composing masterpieces: they ‘do as well as they can in a troubled historical situation’. Ansermet was true to his word in both performing and recording the major works of Martin. On CD1 of this anthology are authoritative, superbly animated accounts of the composer’s neo-classically structured instrumental masterpieces, the Petite symphonie concertante and the Concerto for seven wind instruments, timpani, percussion and string orchestra, as well as the less-often heard Études for string orchestra. CD2 opens with the Violin Concerto which Martin dedicated to the soloist on this recording, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, and the set is completed with

Martin’s wartime oratorio In terra pax. Ansermet gave the first performance of the oratorio in 1945, and he remains the most powerful advocate on record of this yearning plea for peace in desperately troubled times. This music was, in the words of the conductor, ‘the expression of a faith; not because Martin set religious texts, among other things, to music – one can also do that without faith, and conversely, faith can be expressed in a fugue – but because if an impetus goes beyond simple symmetry, if it expands, and acquires a new momentum, it is because it is supported by a faith – and this is how Frank Martin’s music behaves all the time, just like the music of Bach and Handel.’

‘An extraordinarily fine performance. Ansermet is just the man for a composition like this which is at once intellectually conceived yet capable of yielding attractive sensuous effects … Schneiderhan brings a fine combination of ardour and discipline to his contribution. The balance is flawless, and the recording first-rate’ Gramophone, February 1956 (Violin Concerto)

‘Ansermet’s massed strings evoke an effect of controlled yet almost frightening power.’ High Fidelity, May 1959 (Etudes)

‘The third section […] is particularly magnificent, thanks in no small part to Marga Höffgen’s superlative singing; but all the parts are beautifully sung and played, and the recording engineers have taken their roles accordingly.’ High Fidelity, December 1964 (In terra pax)

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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Choeur Des Dames De Lausanne, Union Chorale, Ernest Ansermet

Reviews

March 2019

The Petite Symphonie Concertante and Violin Concerto sound restricted under Ernest Ansermet. In Terra Pax, however, blazes with conviction.

Martin: Orchestral Works

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