Martines: The Complete Keyboard Works

This item will be released April 17, 2026.

Martines: The Complete Keyboard Works presents the first complete modern 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. The works reveal a composer writing ambitiously for public performance, combining lyrical vocal writing with striking technical demands, orchestral imagination, and playful formal subversion. Conceived as a major interpretative and restorative project, this release restores Martines’s keyboard music to the Classical canon as a vital and compelling body of work.

Keyboard Concerto in G Major
[1] I. Allegro
[2] II. Adagio
[3] III. Allegro

Keyboard Concerto in A Major
[4] I. Allegro con spirito
[5] II. Andante con moto
[6] III. Allegro assai

Keyboard Concerto in C Major
[7] I. Allegro
[8] II. Andante
[9] III. Allegro

Keyboard Concerto in E Major
[10] I. Allegro
[11] II. Andante
[12] III. Allegro

Keyboard Sonata in A Major
[13] I. Allegro
[14] II. Adagio
[15] III. Tempo di minuetto

Keyboard Sonata in E Major
[16] I. Allegro
[17] II. Andante
[18] III. Allegro

Keyboard Sonata in G Major
[19] I. Allegro
[20] II. Andante
[21] III. Allegro assai

Sinfonia in C Major
[22] Allegro con spirito – Andante ma non troppo – Allegro spiritoso