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Franck: Organ Music at Sainte Clotilde / Penin
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Franck: Organ Music at Sainte Clotilde / Penin

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Composer
Cesar Auguste Franck
Artist
Olivier Penin
Format
CD
Discs
3
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Jan 27, 2023
Catalog #
BRI96220
UPC
5028421962207

About

Work began on the basilica of Saint-Clotilde in 1846, and only three years later, construction of the organ began under the supervision of the doyen of French organ builders, Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. The instrument as it comes down to us is one of the most magnificent surviving examples of his art and craft – and crucially for the purposes of this album, influenced in its construction by César Franck, who played the dedicatory recital on the new organ in 1859, a decade after Cavaillé-Coll had begun work. Thus the Saint-Clotilde instrument can be definitively acclaimed as the Franck organ par excellence, the ideal home of his organ output. And who better to make a new recording of it than the current holder of the organ’s titular post, Olivier Penin?

Penin himself is thoroughly schooled in the lineage of French organ-playing. Born in 1981, Olivier Penin began playing the piano at the age of five and in 1987 he joined the Schola Cantorum in Caen. In 2004, he was appointed co-titular at Sainte Clotilde, and became the sole holder of the post in 2012. Thus he brings decades of experience to the recording of both this music and this instrument, each of which was designed for the other, as it were. In making this album of Franck at Saint-Clotilde, Penin follows in the footsteps of distinguished forebears such as the composer-organist Jean Langlais. Nevertheless, he brings his own, 21st-century appreciation for the composer’s elusive idiom, which relies on the gradual accumulation of mood and intensity in long, rhapsodic pieces such as the three Chorales and the Grand Pièce symphonique, and then rhythmic grip in the unstoppable momentum of the Pièce Héroïque and the Final Op.21.

Tracklist 30 tracks

  1. 1 6 Pieces for Organ: No. 5. Prière in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 20, M. 32 13:24
    Track
    1
    Title
    6 Pieces for Organ: No. 5. Prière in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 20, M. 32
    Duration
    13:24
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  2. 2 No. 1 in E Major, M. 38: Moderato - Cantabile 06:31
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 1 in E Major, M. 38: Moderato - Cantabile
    Duration
    06:31
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  3. 3 No. 1 in E Major, M. 38: Maestoso - Poco animato - Largo - Poco animato 02:02
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 1 in E Major, M. 38: Maestoso - Poco animato - Largo - Poco animato
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  4. 4 No. 1 in E Major, M. 38: Tempo I: Cantabile - Poco animato - Tutta forza 07:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 1 in E Major, M. 38: Tempo I: Cantabile - Poco animato - Tutta forza
    Duration
    07:06
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  5. 5 No. 2 in B Minor, M. 39: Maestoso 08:29
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 2 in B Minor, M. 39: Maestoso
    Duration
    08:29
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  6. 6 No. 2 in B Minor, M. 39: Tempo ma un poco mento lento 07:34
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 2 in B Minor, M. 39: Tempo ma un poco mento lento
    Duration
    07:34
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  7. 7 No. 3 in A Minor, M. 40: Quasi allegro - Largamente - Quasi allegro 06:28
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 3 in A Minor, M. 40: Quasi allegro - Largamente - Quasi allegro
    Duration
    06:28
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  8. 8 No. 3 in A Minor, M. 40: Adagio - Molto rit 07:20
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 3 in A Minor, M. 40: Adagio - Molto rit
    Duration
    07:20
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  9. 9 No. 3 in A Minor, M. 40: Le double plus vite 03:00
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 3 in A Minor, M. 40: Le double plus vite
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  10. 10 I. Andantino serioso 04:11
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Andantino serioso
    Duration
    04:11
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  11. 11 II. Allegro non troppo e maestoso 07:08
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Allegro non troppo e maestoso
    Duration
    07:08
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  12. 12 III. Andante 05:53
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Andante
    Duration
    05:53
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  13. 13 IV. Allegro 01:57
    Track
    13
    Title
    IV. Allegro
    Duration
    01:57
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  14. 14 V. Andante 02:12
    Track
    14
    Title
    V. Andante
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  15. 15 VI. Allegro non troppo e maestoso - Andantino serioso- Allegro non troppo e maestoso - Poco lento - Andante - Tres lent 02:43
    Track
    15
    Title
    VI. Allegro non troppo e maestoso - Andantino serioso- Allegro non troppo e maestoso - Poco lento - Andante - Tres lent
    Duration
    02:43
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  16. 16 VII. Beaucoup plus largement 04:02
    Track
    16
    Title
    VII. Beaucoup plus largement
    Duration
    04:02
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  17. 17 No. 1. Fantaisie in A Major, M. 35 14:44
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 1. Fantaisie in A Major, M. 35
    Duration
    14:44
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  18. 18 No. 2. Cantabile in B Major, M. 36 07:04
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 2. Cantabile in B Major, M. 36
    Duration
    07:04
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  19. 19 No. 3. Pièce héroïque in B Minor, M. 37 08:56
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 3. Pièce héroïque in B Minor, M. 37
    Duration
    08:56
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  20. 20 No. 1. Fantaisie in C Major, Op. 16, M. 28: Poco lento 04:28
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 1. Fantaisie in C Major, Op. 16, M. 28: Poco lento
    Duration
    04:28
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  21. 21 No. 1. Fantaisie in C Major, Op. 16, M. 28: Allegretto cantando 05:09
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 1. Fantaisie in C Major, Op. 16, M. 28: Allegretto cantando
    Duration
    05:09
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  22. 22 No. 1. Fantaisie in C Major, Op. 16, M. 28: Quasi lento 01:24
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 1. Fantaisie in C Major, Op. 16, M. 28: Quasi lento
    Duration
    01:24
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  23. 23 No. 1. Fantaisie in C Major, Op. 16, M. 28: Adagio 03:01
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 1. Fantaisie in C Major, Op. 16, M. 28: Adagio
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  24. 24 No. 4. Pastorale in E Major, Op. 19, M. 31: Andantino - 03:28
    Track
    24
    Title
    No. 4. Pastorale in E Major, Op. 19, M. 31: Andantino -
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  25. 25 No. 4. Pastorale in E Major, Op. 19, M. 31: Quasi allegretto 03:15
    Track
    25
    Title
    No. 4. Pastorale in E Major, Op. 19, M. 31: Quasi allegretto
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  26. 26 No. 4. Pastorale in E Major, Op. 19, M. 31: Andantino 03:34
    Track
    26
    Title
    No. 4. Pastorale in E Major, Op. 19, M. 31: Andantino
    Duration
    03:34
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  27. 27 No. 3. Prélude, fugue et variation in B Minor, Op. 18, M. 30: Prélude: Andantino 05:11
    Track
    27
    Title
    No. 3. Prélude, fugue et variation in B Minor, Op. 18, M. 30: Prélude: Andantino
    Duration
    05:11
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  28. 28 No. 3. Prélude, fugue et variation in B Minor, Op. 18, M. 30: Fugue 03:25
    Track
    28
    Title
    No. 3. Prélude, fugue et variation in B Minor, Op. 18, M. 30: Fugue
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  29. 29 No. 3. Prélude, fugue et variation in B Minor, Op. 18, M. 30: Variation: Andantino 03:48
    Track
    29
    Title
    No. 3. Prélude, fugue et variation in B Minor, Op. 18, M. 30: Variation: Andantino
    Duration
    03:48
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin
  30. 30 No. 6. Final in B-Flat Major, Op. 21, M. 33 10:45
    Track
    30
    Title
    No. 6. Final in B-Flat Major, Op. 21, M. 33
    Duration
    10:45
    Composer
    César Franck
    Performer
    Olivier Penin