Frank Martin / Wolfgang Schneiderhan / Paul Badura-Skoda
Piano Concerto No. 2 / Violin Concerto
Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records

1971 Stereo Original. Appears Unplayed. Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Violin; Paul Badura-Skoda, Piano; Frank Martin Conducting The Orchestra Of Radio Luxembourg. If You Have Any Serious Interest In Martin's Severe Almost Puritan Approach To The World Of Emotion You Must Have This Recording. The Composer May Have Been 81 At The Sessions But He Knew These Works As Creator (A Word His Christian Convictions Might Have Shrank From) And They Were, At The Time, Respectively Two Decades And Half A Decade Old. The Violin Concerto No. 2 Is Amongst Martin's Least Severe And Sober Works - Especially In The Lengthy First Of Three Movements. Schneiderhan's Forthright Way With The Solo Line In The Finale Recalls Rawsthorne's Contemporaneous First Concerto. The Piece Ends In A Roaringly Unequivocal Blaze Of Triumph.