Idil Biret: Archive Edition Vol.5
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Label: Idil Biret Edition
Cat No: 8571278
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 26th April 2010
Contents
Artists
Idil Biret (piano)London String Quartet
Works
Piano Quintet in F minor, FWV7Piano Quartet in A minor (single movement)
Artists
Idil Biret (piano)London String Quartet
About
Weighty, four-square, thickly-scored, discursive, impassioned, Franck’s quintet seems to transgress against every one of what one usually thinks of as the conventional “Gallic” virtues: deftness, lightness of texture, epigrammaticism, objectivity, elegance, wit… Even such a quintessentially “Gallic” composer as Debussy could respond to Franck’s idealism and purity of aims, despite the gulf that separated their artistic temperaments. “César Franck is always a worshipper of music”, he wrote. “No power on earth can induce him to interrupt a passage he considers just and necessary; however long it is, it must be gone through. This is the hallmark of an imagination so selfless as to check its very sobs until it has first tested their genuineness.” What redeemed Franck for Debussy, then, was the intense, irresistible sincerity that has won his late work a devoted audience now for over a century. The quintet, the earliest of Franck’s works to have joined the enduring concert repertoire, bears it the most eloquent of testimonies.”
Richard Taruskin, Columbia University (1981)
London String Quartet:
- Carl Pini (violin)
- Benedict Cruft (violin)
- Ruşen Güneş (viola)
- Roger Smith (cello)
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