4/8/26

The Piano Canon Expands

Pianist Idith Meshulam Korman talks about how she first came upon Martines' music, and why it deserves a place in the classical piano canon. Martines: The Complete Keyboard Works presents the first complete recording of the surviving keyboard music of Marianna Martines (1744-1812), a composer, keyboard virtuoso, and cultural force in eighteenth-century Viennese musical life. Admired in her lifetime for her brilliance as both performer and composer, Martines occupied a central position within the city’s elite musical circles, yet her instrumental music has remained largely absent from the recorded canon. Led by conductor Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey, with pianist Idith Meshulam Korman and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, this release brings together Martines’s four surviving keyboard concertos, three sonatas, and her Sinfonia in C major, recorded from newly prepared critical editions. Martines: The Complete Keyboard Works will be available on all major streaming platforms on the 17th April 2026. ​ Physical CDs can be pre-ordered at www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9843148--marianna-martines-the-complete-keyboard-works Background music: Martines' Keyboard Sonata in G Major, 2nd movement: Andante.

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