Franck reviews

Franck reviews

Franck: Trois Pièces; Trois Chorals

Pétur Sakari (organ) (BIS)
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A French Connection

Daniel Rowland (violin), Natacha Kudritskaya (piano), et al (Champs Hill)
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Music from Proust's Salons

Steven Isserlis (cello), Connie Shih (piano) (BIS)
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Belle Époque 1886

Corinne Morris (cello), Petr Limonov (piano) (SOMM)
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All Around Bach

Stepan Simonian (piano), et al (CAvi-music)
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Fauré • Franck: Piano Quintets

Mami Shikimori (piano); Wihan Quartet (Nimbus)
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Franck: Psyché; Les Éolides, etc

Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Jean-Luc Tingaud, et al (Naxos)
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Franck by Franck

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra/Mikko Franck (Alpha Classics)
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Ravel • Franck • Ligeti • Messiaen

Duo Gazzana
 (ECM)
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Beau Soir: Works by Fauré, Franck & Debussy

Kyung Wha Chung, Kevin Kenner (
Warner)
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Franck: Préludes, Fugues & Chorals

Nikolai Lugansky (piano) (Harmonia Mundi)
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The Lyrical Clarinet, Vol. 3 (Michael Collins)

Michael Collins (clarinet), Michael McHale (piano) (Chandos)
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Decades – A Century of Song, Vol. 4

Anush Hovhannisyan (soprano), et al, Malcolm Martineau (piano) (VIVAT)
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Chopin • Franck, et al: Cello Sonatas, etc

Gautier Capuçon (cello), Yuja Wang (piano) (Erato)
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Bezaly and Ashkenazy perform Fauré, Franck and Prokofiev

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Tedi Papavrami and Nelson Goerner perform Violin Sonatas by Fauré and Franck

Pianist Nelson Goerner’s opening statement in Fauré’s First Sonata is passionate, free and probing, and I was expecting violinist Tedi Papavrami to follow suit, but he is a little more discreet and gentle in tone. This is emphasised by the recording, which favours the piano in dynamic and in its position in the sound image.

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Franck's complete organ works performed by André Isoir

In this classic survey of Franck’s organ music, Isoir’s playing has all the brilliance and bite expected from a Cavaillé-Coll instrument. One of the dozen canonic pieces (Pastoral) is omitted. 

John Allison

 

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Tasmin Little performs violin sonatas works by Franck, Fauré and Szymanowski

There’s poise and elegance to Piers Lane’s introductory bars in the Franck, matched by the limpid piano sound from Potton Hall. Tasmin Little’s entry follows suit, although this isn’t a performance which wears its heart on its sleeve straight away: real passion is saved for the turbulent Allegro, where Lane’s delivery of the first appearance of the melody is slightly under-projected, but Little tears into it with abandon, and makes lovely contrasts of tone in the quieter passages.

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Preston • JS Bach • Franck • Mendelssohn • Grace • Baker

Over nine months during 2016, the Hill/Harrison & Harrison organ of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge underwent restoration – each of the 4,300 pipes cleaned inside and out, new soundboards and action installed and the four-manual console overhauled, incorporating its old key coverings. And to ensure a long life free from dust and grime, the chapel was also deep-cleaned.

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Marc-Andre Hamelin and the Takács Quartet perform Franck and Debussy

The music of César Franck seems to have gone unaccountably out of fashion, and what a pity that is. How marvellous, then, to encounter his blistering, no-holds-barred Piano Quintet, one of the masterpieces of its genre, scrubbing up bright in the hands of some of the best advocates it could hope for. The Takács Quartet matches the music’s mystic fervour and impassioned rhetoric with burnished intensity of tone, through which Marc-André Hamelin’s apparently effortless virtuosity dashes and dives with scintillating clarity.

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Sunwook Kim performs piano works by Franck and Brahms

Franck and Brahms, on the surface, make surprising bedfellows. In their lifetimes, Brahms’s native Prussia and Franck’s adopted home of France became mortal enemies with the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Yet Franck’s Prélude, Choral et Fugue (premiered in 1885) and Brahms’s five-movement Sonata in F minor (written in 1853, when he was 20) have more in common than one might expect.

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Two Disc Review: Franck Chamber Works

Franck • Chausson
Franck: Violin Sonata; Chausson: Concert for violin, piano and string quartet; Poème de l’amour et de la mer –Interlude
Rachel Kolly d’Alba (violin), Christian Chamorel (piano); Spektral Quartet Chicago
Aparté AP102  
68:51 mins

 

 

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Franck: Father of the Organ Symphony (DVD)

Organ buffs will salivate, and rightly so, but the appeal here is broader. This exquisitely produced collection of documentaries and performances comes from the same label as the Genius of Cavaillé-Coll set that won award for best documentary in the 2014 BBC Music Magazine Awards. The newcomer is similarly engaging in opening up the world of César Franck’s organ music.

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Eduard Franck: Piano Trios

 But no relation to César, Eduard Franck combines the neo-classical enchantment of his teacher Mendelssohn and Schumann’s lyrical fantasy to tantalising effect. (JH) 

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