Franck - Quintet, Sonata
£11.35
Usually available for despatch within 2-3 working days
Despatch Information
This despatch estimate is based on information from both our own stock and the UK supplier's stock.
If ordering multiple items, we will aim to send everything together so the longest despatch estimate will apply to the complete order.
If you would rather receive certain items more quickly, please place them on a separate order.
If any unexpected delays occur, we will keep you informed of progress via email and not allow other items on the order to be held up.
If you would prefer to receive everything together regardless of any delay, please let us know via email.
Pre-orders will be despatched as close as possible to the release date.
Label: Champs Hill Records
Cat No: CHRCD004
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 1st February 2010
Contents
Artists
Schubert EnsembleAbout
Franck was known as a man “enamoured of gentleness and consolation”, but these works tell a different story of an earthier man, less chaste, freed of starch and wing collar. Central to the quintet in particular was a woman - not Franckʼs dutiful wife, but a young student, Augusta Holmes, “decorously rampant” and “possessed of bold beautiful features, abundant golden hair, and handsome breasts of which she was justifiably proud”. Rimsky-Korsakov admired her, but in Paris, Saint-Saens and Franck fought over her. Franckʼs wife would have known that the emotions so readily expressed in this Quintet were not for her, but for Augusta, Franckʼs “impure and seductive” organ student.
Error on this page? Let us know here
Need more information on this product? Click here