Composer: César Auguste Franck
Performer: Eric Lebrun
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8554697
Release: 2001
Size: 244 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Pieces for Organ
01. I. Poco lento
02. II. Allegretto cantando
03. III. Quasi lento
04. IV. Adagio
05. I. Andantino serioso
06. Allegro non troppo e maestoso
07. II. Andante
08. Allegro
09. Andante
10. III. Allegro non troppo e maestoso
11. Andantino
12. Lent
13. Allegretto ma non troppo
14. Andantino
15. Priere in C sharp minor, Op. 20, M. 32
16. Final in B flat major, Op. 21, M. 33
The 12 major organ works of César Franck are such staples of the instrument’s repertory that it’s surprising how rarely players really penetrate their romantic idiom. Modern interpreters either wrap them in literalist straitjackets or else pull and tug them to the point that they lose all coherence and urgency. Not so Eric Lebrun¡KMr. Lebrun keeps the music moving even as he gives it the most natural ebb and flow – and breathing room¡KThe organ provides precisely the sonorities Franck had in mind, by turns plush, piquant and brazen, and recorded sound is clear vivid and spacious.