Composer: César Franck
Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Alain Altinoglu
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha Classics
Catalogue: ALPHA898
Release: 2022
Size: 600 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphony in D Minor, FWV 48
01. I. Lento – Allegro non troppo
02. II. Allegretto
03. III. Allegro non troppo
Rédemption, FWV 52
04. Interlude symphonique
05. Le chasseur maudit, FWV 44
This recording marks the beginning of the collaboration between the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and its new music director, the French conductor Alain Altinoglu, who conducts the leading European and American orchestras and has made a reputation for himself in every repertory – not forgetting opera at Salzburg, Bayreuth, and La Monnaie in Brussels, where he is music director.
Their first recording pays tribute to a composer whose bicentenary is celebrated in 2022, César Franck, with the famous Symphony in D minor and two less well-known works, presented in new editions: the symphonic poem Le Chasseur maudit (1882) and the large-scale symphonic interlude from the oratorio Rédemption, composed in 1872 after the Paris Commune, performed here in its first version, long considered lost.