Martin Frutiger - Monody: Music for cor anglais, Vol. 3 (2021)

The focus for Martin Frutiger’s third album of works for cor anglais and piano is on romantic-impressionist French music, with works by Koechlin and Bozza, but also first recordings of the Quatre Pièces by Clémence de Grandval, a Saint-Saëns student and romantic virtuoso. There are also works by the legendary French oboe teacher Gustave Vogt and his students together with a few rarities from Florent Schmitt, François Rasse, Edouard Barat and others. This means that the entire European, romantic original repertoire for cor anglais and piano are covered in a trilogy of albums on Guild. Martin Frutiger was born in Bern and studied with Professor Hans Elhorst at the Bern University of the Arts. He continued his oboe studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich in the master class of Professor Günther Passin. From 2001 to 2003 he played in the Orchester-Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Since 2004, he has been principal cor anglais player with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich.