It's not surprising that when Frank Martin, one of the twentieth century's most devout composers, began a work based on the legend of Tristan and Iseult, he turned not to Thomas Malory's Le morte d'Arthur or to Wagner's source, Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan, both of which depict the lovers as totally abandoned to their passion, but to Joseph ...
This homage to German expressionist poet August Stramm, who was killed in World War I, is apparently a project of pianist Steffen Schleiermacher, who performs in most of the music and contributes a pair of original compositions. The composers involved span several generations, reaching back to Stramm's own time, and that's the chief attraction in ...
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