Composer: César Auguste Franck
Performer: Eliot Quartett, Dmitry Ablogin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Genuin
Catalogue: GEN22784
Release: 2022
Size: 787 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
String Quartet in D Major, FWV 9
01. I. Poco lento – Allegro
02. II. Scherzo. Vivace
03. III. Larghetto
04. IV. Finale. Allegro molto
Piano Quintet in F Minor, FWV 7
05. I. Molto moderato quasi lento – Allegro
06. II. Lento con molto sentimento
07. III. Allegro non troppo ma con fuoco
The Eliot Quartet offers a reminiscence of César Franck, the magician of sound, on its new recording in co-production with SWR. To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Belgium’s greatest composer, the multinational ensemble has combined Franck’s only string quartet with his celebrated piano quintet. The friendship between the quartet and pianist Dmitry Ablogin bears musical fruit on this album, as the five musicians weave an intense web of sound between keyboard and strings in the Piano Quintet. Both works here testify César Franck’s mastery and ability to conjure vast sweeping lines in the most harmonically and melodically refined late Romantic garb!