Cesar Franck Edition | Brilliant Classics 95793

Cesar Franck Edition

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 95793

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 23

Release Date: 11th January 2019

Contents

Artists

Kristof Barati
Daniel Beckmann
Francesco Bertoldi
Cristiano Burato
Ruxandra Colan
Mihai Dancila
Adriano Falcioni
Martijn van den Hoek
Mattia Ometto
Muza Rubackyte
Mihail Sarbu
Francesca Scaini
Julia Severus
Mariana Sirbu
Francois-Joel Thiollier
Roberto Trainini
Joris Verdin
Klara Wurtz
Vilnius String Quartet
Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra
Chorus & Orchestra of the Opera Royal de Wallonie
Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart & Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Kodaly Korus Debrecen
Mainzer Domchor & Domorchester
Netherlands Radio Choir & Philharmonic
Sofia Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Roberto Benzi
Paolo Arrivabeni
Helmuth Rilling
Salamon Kamp
Karsten Storck
Jean Fournet
Vassil Kazandjiev

Works

Franck, Cesar

A cette terre ou l'on ploie sa tente
Aimer
Andantino quietoso, op.6
Ballade, op.9
Chorales (3), M38-40
Dextera Domini
Fantasy on two Polish folk songs, op.15
Grande Fantaisie sur des motifs de Gulistan de Dalayrac
L'Ange et l'enfant
L'Emir de Bengador
La Procession
Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman), M44
Le Mariage des roses
Le Vase brise
Les Beatitudes
Les Djinns, M45
Les Eolides: Symphonic Tone Poem
Les Sept Paroles du Christ en Croix (The Seven Words of Christ at the Cross)
Les cloches du soir
Lied
Mass in A major, op.12
Ninon
Nocturne
Panis Angelicus
Passez! Passez toujours!
Piano Concerto no.2 in B minor, op.11
Piano Quintet in F minor, FWV7
Piano Trio no.1 in F sharp minor, op.1 no.1
Piano Trio no.2 in B flat major, op.1 no.2 'Trio de salon'
Piano Trio no.3 in B minor, op.1 no.3
Piano Trio no.4 in B minor, op.2
Pieces (3) for organ
Prelude, Aria and Finale
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
Prelude, Fugue and Variation, op.18
Psyche
Quae est ista
Redemption
Robin Gray
Roses et papillons
S'il est un charmant gazon
Souvenance
Souvenirs d'Aix-la-Chapelle, op.7
Stradella
String Quartet in D major, FWV9
Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra
Symphony in D minor, op.48
Violin Sonata in A major (arr. Jules Delsart for cello)
Violin Sonata in A major

Artists

Kristof Barati
Daniel Beckmann
Francesco Bertoldi
Cristiano Burato
Ruxandra Colan
Mihai Dancila
Adriano Falcioni
Martijn van den Hoek
Mattia Ometto
Muza Rubackyte
Mihail Sarbu
Francesca Scaini
Julia Severus
Mariana Sirbu
Francois-Joel Thiollier
Roberto Trainini
Joris Verdin
Klara Wurtz
Vilnius String Quartet
Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra
Chorus & Orchestra of the Opera Royal de Wallonie
Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart & Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Kodaly Korus Debrecen
Mainzer Domchor & Domorchester
Netherlands Radio Choir & Philharmonic
Sofia Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Roberto Benzi
Paolo Arrivabeni
Helmuth Rilling
Salamon Kamp
Karsten Storck
Jean Fournet
Vassil Kazandjiev

About

This remarkable set reveals the full breadth and genius of a creative career known to most merely by the tip of the iceberg: a small number of seminal works written in the composer’s final decade of life. César Franck (1822–1890), although considered one of the foremost 19th-century French composers, was not in fact French by birth, but Belgian. He only became a full French citizen in 1873 after he had been appointed organ professor at the Paris Conservatoire. His career can be divided into three distinct periods, each characterised by the production of very different types of music.

From 1834 to 1846, under pressure from his father, he concertised as a piano virtuoso, and most of the works of this period were written with that purpose in mind. In the decade following his marriage in 1848 he composed virtually nothing but became celebrated as an organist, and he would bring the spacious dimensions of that instrument to his sound world in the years to come. His ‘middle period’ – from about 1858 to 1879 – was devoted to the production of works for organ, church music and a series of monumental choral pieces on religious or biblical subjects. In these three decades he wrote virtually nothing for the piano. From 1879 begins the decade of his late flowering in the great chamber and orchestral works, ushered in by his well-loved Piano Quintet and containing the pieces for which Franck is widely known. Spanning all three periods were opera and his small output of 18 mélodies.

Recordings date from 1976 to 2016

New liner notes on the composer and the music by David Moncur

Contents:

CD 1-3: Symphonic & Concertante Music
Le Chasseur maudit
Symphony in D minor
Symphonic Variations
Les Djinns
Piano Concerto no.2
Les Éolides
Psyché, symphonic poem for orchestra

CD 4-7
Chamber Music

String Quartet
Piano Quintet
Piano Trios nos. 1-4
Violin-Piano Music
Duo Concertante
Andantino quietoso
Violin Sonata

CD 8-10: Solo Piano Music
Ballade
4 Schubert Songs
Fantaisie sur 2 airs polonaises
Souvenirs d’Aix-la-Chapelle
Grandes Fantaisies on Gulistan nos. 1 & 2
Grandes Fantaisies nos. 2 & 3
Prélude, Fugue & Variation
Prélude, Aria & Final
Prélude, Choral & Fugue

CD 11-14: Organ Music
6 Pièces pour grand orgue
3 Pièces
3 Chorals
Complete works for harmonium

CD 15-21: Opera & Sacred Vocal Music
Stradella (arr. L. Hove)
Les Béatitudes
Rédemption
Messe à 3 voix (1872 version with 'Panis Angelicus')
Quae est ista
Dextera Domini
Le Sept Paroles du Christ sur la croix

CD 22: Mélodies
Nocturne
Ninon
Le Vase brisé
Lied
Le Mariage des roses
Souvenance
Robin Gray
Passez ! Passez toujors !
Roses et Papollons
L'Ange et l'Enfant
Les Cloches du soir
L'Émir de Bengador
S'il est un charmant gazon
À cette terre où l'on ploie sa tente
Aimer
La Procession

CD 23: Violin Sonata & Transcription for Cello
Violin Sonata
Violin Sonata (transc. cello & piano Jules Delsart)

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