SACD, Franck, C (composer)
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this celebration of song is infused with heartfelt joy. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Song
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The intimate quality of the performances, the partnership between Blanchard and von Busch, the characteristically superb sound quality of MDG's recording and the whole concept make this a most... —
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Isserlis and regular partner Connie Shih are perfect hosts, ensuring it all flows with deceptive ease, setting the scene with the wistful nobility of Hahn’s Variations chantantes sur un air... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2021
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Special offer. Franck: Symphony in D minor & Symphonic Variations
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Gustavo Gimeno
[Symphony] The Luxembourg orchestra plays beautifully for Gimeno and for Franck. The famous English horn solo in the second movement is nicely done and, for once, played straight, without undue... —
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These 12 arrangements (by the ensemble) are of stylistic and historical diversity...Muhly’s Look for Me invests a US folk song with dark jazz; Janacek’s Zdenka Variations is an appealing discovery. —
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Special offer. Franck & R. Strauss: Violin Sonatas
Arabella Steinbacher (violin) & Robert Kulek (piano)
Steinbacher and Robert Kulek give elegant and tasteful accounts, Steinbacher's crystalline high register shining particularly in the first movement of the Franck...Kulek is a sure-footed partner... —
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When it comes to organ colour you won't get anything more dazzling than this. Frédéric Desenclos has chosen a glorious collection of pieces...[The Widor] sounds, like everything else here,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, Editor's Choice
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Franck: Trois Pieces & Trois Chorals
1880 Cavaillé-Coll organ, Cathédrale Saint-Croix, Orléans
Pétur Sakari (organ)
Sakari lays out the thematic material of Franck’s ‘Fantaisie’ with a sense of both the music’s pensive quality and its sweep. He manages to make this first of the composer’s Trois Pièces, written... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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On the whole, the organ is a pretty flexible beast, best in the Mendelssohn and Franck where heavy diapasons and rounded reeds make all the difference, but less spectacular in Bach, its mixtures,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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