Martin’s early career followed a normal path of recitals and chamber music. He found regular work as pianist of the emerging Nash Ensemble founded in 1964. In 1968 he won the first Myra Hess Award. This propelled him onto the international scene, a concert in London at Queen Elizabeth Hall and Brahms’ Piano Concerto No.2 at Carnegie Hall in New York. At the suggestion of his then manager Emmie Tillet, Martin came to Nimbus on 5 June 1972 He played a selection of pieces by Poulenc (released in this series on NI7117). Further visits occurred in October and December and continued in April, August and December 1973. During these sessions Martin recorded almost all the piano works of Mendelssohn. Then silence because Nimbus had as yet no organised plan to issue LPs. Unreleased recordings piled up. At Nimbus there was a dynamic change in 1974 when the entire operation moved from Birmingham to Monmouth, and there built a small LP factory. The first releases came out in 1977, among them Martin’s 1973 recording of Rachmaninoff’s Corelli Variations and Moments Musicaux Op. 16. Then another very long silence, until 1978/79 when Martin was invited back to complete the outstanding pieces of Mendelssohn. In 1980 he delivered this recital of Busoni pieces. Happily the relationship between Nimbus and Martin survived silences and early disappointments. The long-awaited Mendelssohn project was finally issued on six CDs in 1988. By that time Martin had become one of the most regular visitors to the studio, as the large discography included here will testify. © Adrian Farmer