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

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Label
CPO
Release Date
January 14, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Eduard Franck
    • PERFORMER
      Georg Michael Grau, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Fawzi Haimor
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 14, 2022
    • UPC
      761203532025
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555320-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical

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.