Release Date: 23 July 2021
Label: Neos
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4260063320019
Composer/Series: Cesar Franck
Description
As early as 1858–66, Franck had composed first an "Offertoire" and "5 Pieces" for harmonium, then 44 further "Petits pieces" for organ or harmonium. More than two decades followed, before Franck, in the last two years of his life, began a project for harmonium that remained unfinished only because of his death: a cycle of harmonium pieces comprising 12 suites of seven pieces on all 12 pitches. The posthumous publication of the unfinished cycle of 59 pieces, to be performed on either organ or harmonium, is entitled "L'Organiste, Pieces pour Orgue-Harmonium par Cesar Franck".
"In my interpretation, it is important for me to respect and point out the common features and similarities of the harmonium and accordion but also the differences between the two instruments. Already whilst studying for my degree, I was inspired by the "Pieces pour harmonium", as Franck himself called them, and their interpretation on the accordion. With this recording, I would like to make Cesar Franck's work as well as the classical accordion and its possibilities known to a wide audience." (Doris Bertschinger)
Tracklisting
Andreas Skouras, Bela Bartok, Gyorgy Ligeti, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Pascal Dusapin, Unsuk Chin, Y
Mikael Rudolfsson, Olivier Vivares, Gerard Grisey, Luciano Berio, Eloain Lovis Hubner, Bernhard Gan
John Palmer, Delphine Henriet, Barbara Maurer, Hofer Symphoniker, Alinde Quartett, Johannes Klumpp,
Johannes Maria Staud, Boulanger Trio, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, Ludwig Chamber Players,
Eres Holz, Ingolfur Vilhjalmsson, Laurent Bruttin, Florian Juncker, E-MEX Ensemble, Christoph Maria
Robert M. Helmschrott
Robert M. Helmschrott
Kevin Juillerat, Cedric Pecia
Marianne Beate Kielland, Nils Anders Mortensen
Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria, Coro Lirico Siciliano, Filippo Arlia, Francesco Costa
Michele Campanella & Monica Leone
Erich Leinsdorf; Wiener Philharmoniker; Cesare Siepi; Fernando Corena; Leontyne Price; Birgit Nilss
Ensemble Castor
Alessandro Deljavan
Martin Iddon, Quiet Music Ensemble, Jack Adler-McKean
Eva Maria Doroszkowska
