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From high atop beautiful downtown King Salmon, Alaska, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. This week we feature the work of composer Frank Martin. Frank Martin (15 September 1890 – 21 November 1974) was a Swiss >composer , who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands Born into a Huguenot family in the Eaux-Vives quarter of Geneva, the youngest of the ten children of a Calvinist pastor named Charles Martin, Frank Martin was improvising at the piano even before he started school. At the age of nine, despite having received no musical instruction, he wrote some complete songs. He attended a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion when he was 12 and was deeply affected. Respecting his parents' wishes, he studied mathematics and physics for two years at Geneva University, but all the time he was also working at his composition and studying the piano, composition and harmony with his first music teacher Joseph Lauber (1864 - 1953), a Geneva composer and by that time a leading light of the city's musical scene. In the 1920s, Martin worked closely for a time with Émile Jaques-Dalcroze from whom he learned much about rhythm and musical theory. Between 1918 and 1926 Martin lived successively in Zurich, Rome and Paris. Compositions of the period show him searching for an authentic musical voice of his own. The Petite Symphonie Concertante of 1944/45 made Martin's international reputation and is the best known of his orchestral works. Capitol, 1960.Gloria Agostini, harp; Alberg Fuller, harpsichord; Mitchell Andrews, piano; with symphony orchestra; Leopold Stokowski, conductor.
Five Ariel Songs, per coro a cappella, text of William Shakespeare from "The Tempest" (1950) RIAS-Kammerchor directed by Daniel Reuss. The RIAS Kammerchor is a professional chamber choir based in Berlin, Germany, and supported by the Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre GmbH Berlin ("Berlin Radio Orchestra and Choirs"), a limited-liability company owned by the public broadcasters Deutschlandradio (40%) and RBB (5%), the German Federal Republic (35%), and the State of Berlin (20%). Originally known as the Rundfunkchor des RIAS, the choir was founded in 1948 by the US-run German-language radio station Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor ("Broadcasting in the American Sector") – hence its name, which it has retained even though RIAS itself was wound up in 1993, following German reunification.
 Le vin herbé;[oratorio in three acts, based on three chapters of the novel Le roman de Tristan et Iseult by Joseph Bédier] Music Guild[1969] Starring Nata Tuscher, soprano, as Isolde; and Eric Tappy, tenor, as Tristan, with supporting soloists; first desk men of the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra; Victor Desarzens, conductor; the composer at the piano.
The Sixteen and Harry Christophers – Mass For Double Choir: Gloria  Credo The Sixteen and Harry Christophers – Frank Martin
Loeffler, Charles Martin Tornov, 1861-1935.  Deux rapsodies.  Mercury [1961]   Robert Sprenckle, oboe; Francis Tursi, viola; Armand Basile, piano.  Recorded in the Eastman Theatre, Rochester, May, 1958. Loeffler, Charles Martin Tornov, 1861-1935.  A pagan poem; after Virgil. Op. 14. Capitol [1953?]   For orchestra, with piano, English horn, and 3 trumpets obbligati.   Paris Philharmonic Orchestra; Manuel Rosenthal, conductor.
Martin, Frank, 1890-1974. 6 [i. e. Sechs] Monologe aus Jedermann; Text von H. v. Hofmannsthal. 3. Fragmente aus der Oper Der Sturm; Text: Shakespeare/Schlegel. Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft [1963] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Berliner Philharmoniker; the composer conducting.