Fanny Hensel was Felix Mendelssohn's sister, a fact that goes unmentioned in the detailed booklet that accompanies this disc. The idea, no doubt, is to show that her music can stand on its own merits, and indeed it can. Hensel's style in general seems shaped along the lines of the small piano pieces heard here: her music is fantasy-like, often ...
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 ...
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