Franck: Trois Pieces & Trois Chorals: 1880 Cavaillé-Coll organ, Cathédrale Saint-Croix, Orléans

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Sakari lays out the thematic material of Franck’s ‘Fantaisie’ with a sense of both the music’s pensive quality and its sweep. He manages to make this first of the composer’s Trois Pièces, written... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Apr 2021
Catalogue No: BIS2349
Label: BIS
Length: 80 minutes

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June 2021

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Franck, C: Trois pièces pour grand orgue, M. 35-37

Work length33:19

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$9.05

$12.25

Pétur Sakari (organ)

No. 1, Fantaisie, FWV 35

Track length16:28

Album only

$5.15

$7.00

No. 2, Cantabile, FWV 36

Track length6:57

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

No. 3, Pièce héroïque, FWV 37

Track length9:54

$1.50

$2.60

$3.50

Franck, C: Trois Chorals pour grand orgue, M. 38-40

Work length47:00

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$15.45

$21.00

Pétur Sakari (organ)

No. 1 in E Major, FWV 38

Track length15:44

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$5.15

$7.00

No. 2 in B Minor, FWV 39

Track length15:41

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$5.15

$7.00

No. 3 in A Minor, FWV 40

Track length15:35

Album only

$5.15

$7.00

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Still in his twenties, Pétur Sakari studied in his native Finland and in Paris and made his recording début at the age of 18. On his previous disc for BIS, he performed works by five French composers, receiving international acclaim with top marks in Diapason as well as on the Klassik-Heute website. For the present disc, Pétur has chosen to focus on César Franck, performing the composer's Three Pieces and Three Chorales 'pour grand orgue' on an instrument perfectly suited to the repertoire. Completed in 1880, the great organ in the Sainte-Croix cathedral of Orléans is a major – and well-preserved – example of the art of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, the same maker who had previously built Franck's beloved organ in Sainte-Clotilde in Paris. ('My new organ? It's an orchestra!' was Franck's verdict.) Together the two gave the French organ tradition a new impetus with Franck laying the groundwork for a French symphonic organ style while Cavaillé-Coll constructed hundreds of organs capable of producing a sound that was full, homogeneous and modern. The Trois Pièces, which closes with the famous Pièce héroïque, were written for a Cavaillé-Coll instrument built for the 1878 World Fair in Paris. Twelve years later, and only weeks before his untimely death, Franck completed the Trois Chorals.

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June 2021

Sakari lays out the thematic material of Franck’s ‘Fantaisie’ with a sense of both the music’s pensive quality and its sweep. He manages to make this first of the composer’s Trois Pièces, written at the same time (1878) as the organ of the Sainte-Croix Cathedral in Orléans was being built, sound at once improvisatory and rigorously structured.

September/October 2021

His interpretations at their best are deeply felt, and the lovely instrument and superb recorded sound are major pluses.

June 2021

From the brilliance of his playing, the instrument chosen and BIS’s superlative stands out as something quite exceptional, even in the crowded field of outstanding Franck recordings.

Franck: Trois Pieces & Trois Chorals

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