Franck: Organ Music
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CESAR FRANCK
Franck: Organ Music
Olivier Penin (organ)
[ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 27 January 2023
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César Franck (1822-1890), is widely considered one of the foremost 19th century French composers. He was not in fact French by birth, being born to parents of German stock in Liege, Belgium. He only became a full French citizen in 1873. A child prodigy he studied piano and organ in both Belgium and France. His career as a traveling piano virtuoso was not successful and it was as an organist that he finally established himself and settled in France as a teacher and organist, the Paris church St Clothilde, with its magnificent Cavaillé Coll organ, being his home.
Like Bruckner and Messiaen, he was a devout Christian who invested his music with an intense spirituality that was matched in his personal life by an almost saintly innocence. His musical style is characterized by rich chromaticism, long, curving melodic lines and highly personal counterpoint.
This new recording presents the Organ Works by Franck, grouped in 3 CDs: spiritual organ music, the symphonic organ works and the romantic organ works.
French organist Olivier Penin is titular organist of the famous St.Clothilde church in Paris, where Franck himself was organist and where this recording was made.
Excellent liner notes in French and English, the specifications of the organ are included in the booklet.
Tracks:
Disc 1
Prière in C-Sharp Minor, FWV 32
Choral No. 1 in E Major, FWV 38: I. Moderato
Choral No. 1 in E Major, FWV 38: II. Maestoso/poco animato
Choral No. 1 in E Major, FWV 38: III. (No Tempo Indication)
Choral No. 2 in B Minor, FWV 39: I. Maestoso/Largamente con fantasia
Choral No. 2 in B Minor, FWV 39: II. Primo tempo ma un poco meno lento
Choral No. 3 in A Minor, FWV 40: I. Quasi allegro
Choral No. 3 in A Minor, FWV 40: II. Adagio
Choral No. 3 in A Minor, FWV 40: III. Le double plus vite
Disc 2
Grande pièce symphonique in F-Sharp Minor, FWV 29: I. Andantino serioso
Grande pièce symphonique in F-Sharp Minor, FWV 29: II. Allegro non troppo e maestoso
Grande pièce symphonique in F-Sharp Minor, FWV 29: III. Andante
Grande pièce symphonique in F-Sharp Minor, FWV 29: IV. Allegro
Grande pièce symphonique in F-Sharp Minor, FWV 29: V. Andante
Grande pièce symphonique in F-Sharp Minor, FWV 29: VI. Allegro non troppo e maestoso/andantino serioso/allegro non troppo e maestoso / poco lento/andante/Très lent
Grande pièce symphonique in F-Sharp Minor, FWV 29: VII. Beaucoup plus largement
Fantaisie in A Major, FWV 35 Cantabile, FWV 36
Pièce héroïque, FWV 37
Disc 3
Fantaisie in C Major, FWV 28: I. Poco lento
Fantaisie in C Major, FWV 28: II. Allegretto catando
Fantaisie in C Major, FWV 28: III. Quasi lento
Fantaisie in C Major, FWV 28: IV. Adagio
Pastorale in E Major, FWV 31: I. Andantino
Pastorale in E Major, FWV 31: II. Quasi allegretto
Pastorale in E Major, FWV 31: III. Andantino
Prélude, Fugue & Variation in B Minor, FWV 30: I. Prélude (andantino cantabile)
Prélude, Fugue & Variation in B Minor, FWV 30: II. Fugue (allegretto ma non troppo)
Prélude, Fugue & Variation in B Minor, FWV 30: III. Variation (andantino)
Final in B-Flat Major, FWV 33
