Les Eolides & Grande Piece Symphonique - La nuit de Walpurgi

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Label
CPO
Release Date
January 30, 2026
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Cesar Franck, Charles-Marie Widor
    • PERFORMER
      Christian Schmitt, Bamberger Symphoniker, Fabien Gabel
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 30, 2026
    • UPC
      761203563227
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      555632-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Andantino serioso

      Composer: César Franck

      Ensemble: Bamberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Christian Schmitt

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    2. II. Andante

      Composer: César Franck

      Ensemble: Bamberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Christian Schmitt

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    3. III. Allegro non troppo e maestoso

      Composer: César Franck

      Ensemble: Bamberger Symphoniker

      Performer: Christian Schmitt

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    4. Les Éolides, M. 43

      Composer: César Franck

      Ensemble: Bamberger Symphoniker

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    5. I. Overture: Adagio - Allegro con fuoco

      Composer: Charles-Marie Widor

      Ensemble: Bamberger Symphoniker

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    6. II. Adagio: Lento, a piacere quasi allegretto - Tranquillamente

      Composer: Charles-Marie Widor

      Ensemble: Bamberger Symphoniker

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel

    7. III. Bacchanale: Andante quasi adagio - Allegro con fuoco

      Composer: Charles-Marie Widor

      Ensemble: Bamberger Symphoniker

      Conductor: Fabien Gabel


Anyone who entitles an organ piece a Grand Pièce Symphonique should not be surprised if this very title one day is used as a benchmark to determine the legitimacy of this claimed attribute. This is exactly what the organist, composer, and pedagogue Zsigmond Szathmáry did at the behest of his young colleague Christian Schmitt when he examined the orchestral possibilities of César Franck's "great symphonic work". The result of this exploration gives us the world premiere of a concert piece in which the king of instruments and it's personified registers - i.e. The orchestra - form a captivating synthesis. Next to Franck's well-known tone poem Les Éolides (The Daughters of Aeolus), the programme includes a rarely recorded work by Charles-Marie Widor - a Walpurgis Night that easily rivals the most famous witches' dances in the Romantic literature.