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E. Franck: Piano Concertos / Grau, Fawzi, Württemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen
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E. Franck: Piano Concertos / Grau, Fawzi, Württemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen

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Composer
Eduard Franck
Artist
Georg Michael Grau, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Fawzi Haimor
Format
CD
Label
CPO
Released
Jan 14, 2022
Catalog #
555320-2
UPC
761203532025

About

The composer and pianist Eduard Franck was from an art-loving Breslau banker’s family and revealed his musical gifts at an early age. Later Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy became his teacher and even performed together with him. His friendly acquaintance with Mendelssohn and kindred musical spirits like Robert Schumann and William Sterndale Bennett showed Eduard Franck the way. However, he increasingly emerged from the shadow of his models, and today he is honored less as a follower and more as a mediator between the generations who in his time anticipated many a new development by great masters such as Brahms and Bruckner. Franck’s Piano Concerto in D minor op. 13, his first broadly dimensioned orchestral work, generates its appeal above with its imposing and stormy main themes and brilliantly virtuosic broken chords in the piano part. The second concerto recorded here was previously available only in a manuscript of the score and a piano reduction from 1879. The virtuosic interplay between the orchestra and the piano, as heard on the present recording premiere, in particular makes us sit up and take notice.

Tracklist 6 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro con fuoco 15:34
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro con fuoco
    Duration
    15:34
    Composer
    Eduard Franck
    Performer
    Georg Michael Grau
    Ensemble
    Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
    Conductor
    Fawzi Haimor
  2. 2 II. Andantino con moto ed espressione 11:46
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andantino con moto ed espressione
    Duration
    11:46
    Composer
    Eduard Franck
    Performer
    Georg Michael Grau
    Ensemble
    Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
    Conductor
    Fawzi Haimor
  3. 3 III. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo 13:22
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo
    Duration
    13:22
    Composer
    Eduard Franck
    Performer
    Georg Michael Grau
    Ensemble
    Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
    Conductor
    Fawzi Haimor
  4. 4 I. Allegro maestoso, quasi fantasia 14:28
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro maestoso, quasi fantasia
    Duration
    14:28
    Composer
    Eduard Franck
    Performer
    Georg Michael Grau
    Ensemble
    Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
    Conductor
    Fawzi Haimor
  5. 5 II. Intermezzo: Adagio 09:43
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Intermezzo: Adagio
    Duration
    09:43
    Composer
    Eduard Franck
    Performer
    Georg Michael Grau
    Ensemble
    Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
    Conductor
    Fawzi Haimor
  6. 6 III. Presto 09:57
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Presto
    Duration
    09:57
    Composer
    Eduard Franck
    Performer
    Georg Michael Grau
    Ensemble
    Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
    Conductor
    Fawzi Haimor