Franck: String Quartet & Piano Quintet

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Meaty playing that brings out the angst in these knotty, chromatic works. The Quartet’s Larghetto has an expansive feel while the Quintet’s finale has a devilish abandon. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Dec 2017
Catalogue No: 555088-2
Label: CPO
Length: 76 minutes

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Franck, C: String Quartet in D major

Work length41:19

$9.00

$11.60

Quatuor Danel
Recorded: 20-26 November 2013
Recording Venue: Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, Cologne, Germany

I. Poco lento - Allegro

Track length13:35

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$3.85

II. Scherzo. Vivace

Track length5:09

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$1.30

III. Larghetto

Track length9:32

$2.00

$2.60

IV. Finale. Allegro molto

Track length13:03

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$3.85

Franck, C: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 14

Work length35:06

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$11.60

Paavali Jumppanen (piano)
Quatuor Danel
Recorded: 20-26 November 2013
Recording Venue: Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, Cologne, Germany

I. Molto moderato, quasi lento - Allegro

Track length15:35

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$5.15

II. Lento, con molto sentimento

Track length10:24

$3.00

$3.85

III. Allegro non troppo, ma con fuoco

Track length9:07

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$2.60

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The gifted Belgian Quatuor Danel turn to two masterpieces by César Franck: his passionate Piano Quintet and the String Quartet. The three-movement Quintet, like Brahms’s op. 34 an expansion of the Schumannian model, is one of Franck’s most infamous works. It immediately established itself, and a second performance with the pianist Marie Poitevin, the later dedicatee of the Prélude, Choral et Fugue, convinced the members of the Société Nationale. Franck’s String Quartet, his last major work, was similarly acclaimed by its first listeners. After its first performance in April 1890, with tears in his eyes, César Franck is said to have told his pupil Vincent d’Indy, “Now you see: at long last the public is beginning to understand me.”

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March 2018

Meaty playing that brings out the angst in these knotty, chromatic works. The Quartet’s Larghetto has an expansive feel while the Quintet’s finale has a devilish abandon.

March 2018

These performances by the Quatuor Danel are deftly poised on a knife’s edge between sensuousness and rigour, as the most memorable interpretations of Franck’s music so often are...it’s the vivid characterisations that makes these performances extraordinary...this new recording by the Quatuor Danel and Paavali Jumppanen is the most gripping yet – and by a long shot. Urgently recommended.

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