Franck: Organ Music at Sainte Clotilde / Penin

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
January 27, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Cesar Auguste Franck
    • PERFORMER
      Olivier Penin
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 27, 2023
    • UPC
      5028421962207
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96220
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. 6 Pieces for Organ: No. 5. Prière in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 20, M. 32

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    2. No. 1 in E Major, M. 38: Moderato - Cantabile

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    3. No. 1 in E Major, M. 38: Maestoso - Poco animato - Largo - Poco animato

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    4. No. 1 in E Major, M. 38: Tempo I: Cantabile - Poco animato - Tutta forza

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    5. No. 2 in B Minor, M. 39: Maestoso

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    6. No. 2 in B Minor, M. 39: Tempo ma un poco mento lento

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    7. No. 3 in A Minor, M. 40: Quasi allegro - Largamente - Quasi allegro

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    8. No. 3 in A Minor, M. 40: Adagio - Molto rit

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    9. No. 3 in A Minor, M. 40: Le double plus vite

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    10. I. Andantino serioso

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    11. II. Allegro non troppo e maestoso

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    12. III. Andante

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    13. IV. Allegro

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    14. V. Andante

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    15. VI. Allegro non troppo e maestoso - Andantino serioso- Allegro non troppo e maestoso - Poco lento - Andante - Tres lent

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    16. VII. Beaucoup plus largement

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    17. No. 1. Fantaisie in A Major, M. 35

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    18. No. 2. Cantabile in B Major, M. 36

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    19. No. 3. Pièce héroïque in B Minor, M. 37

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    20. No. 1. Fantaisie in C Major, Op. 16, M. 28: Poco lento

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    21. No. 1. Fantaisie in C Major, Op. 16, M. 28: Allegretto cantando

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    22. No. 1. Fantaisie in C Major, Op. 16, M. 28: Quasi lento

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    23. No. 1. Fantaisie in C Major, Op. 16, M. 28: Adagio

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    24. No. 4. Pastorale in E Major, Op. 19, M. 31: Andantino -

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    25. No. 4. Pastorale in E Major, Op. 19, M. 31: Quasi allegretto

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    26. No. 4. Pastorale in E Major, Op. 19, M. 31: Andantino

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    27. No. 3. Prélude, fugue et variation in B Minor, Op. 18, M. 30: Prélude: Andantino

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    28. No. 3. Prélude, fugue et variation in B Minor, Op. 18, M. 30: Fugue

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    29. No. 3. Prélude, fugue et variation in B Minor, Op. 18, M. 30: Variation: Andantino

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin

    30. No. 6. Final in B-Flat Major, Op. 21, M. 33

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Olivier Penin


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.