4/17/26

Marianna Martines: Restoring a Legacy

Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey describes the process of working with incomplete and urtext editions of Martines' scores to create these recordings. 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 is now available on all major streaming platforms. Physical CDs can be purchased at www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9843148--marianna-martines-the-complete-keyboard-works Background music: Martines' Keyboard Concerto in A Major, 2nd movement: Andante con comodo.

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