4260063320019

Cesar Franck: Pieces Pour Harmonium

Doris Bertschinger

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Format: CD

Cat No: NEOS32001

Release Date:  23 July 2021

Label:  Neos

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  4260063320019

Genres:  Classical  Classical  

  • 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

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Cesar Franck: Sept Pieces En Ut Majeur Et Ut Mineur
      • 8. Cesar Franck: Sept Pieces Een Re Bemol Majeur Et Ut Dièse Mineur
      • 15. Cesar Franck: Sept Pieces En Re Majeur Et Re Mineur Pour Le Temps De Noel
      • 22. Cesar Franck: Sept Pieces En Mi Bemol Majeur Et Mi Bemol Mineur
      • 29. Cesar Franck: Sept Pieces En Mi Mineur Et Mi Majeur