Composer: César Auguste Franck
Performer: Tanguy de Williencourt
Orchestra: Flanders Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Kristiina Poska
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Mirare
Catalogue: MIR598
Release: 2022
Size: 1.01 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Les Djinns, Op. 45
Prélude, Choral et Fugue, M21
02. I. Prélude
03. II. Choral
04. III. Fugue
05. Symphonic Variations for piano & orchestra, M46
Prelude, Aria and Finale, FWV 23
06. I. Prelude
07. II. Aria
08. III. Finale
The two concertante pieces and the two large triptychs gathered here testify to César Franck’s dazzling maturity in the last years of life, as well as to his return to writing for the piano. The quintessence of his creative quest is manifested in these formally ambitious, expressively powerful, harmonically rich and architecturally masterful works. Above all, they affirm the genius of this incomparable mind, constantly driven by a thirst for the absolute, of which the music is the sublime reflection, between torment and consolation, between passion and spirituality.