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SACD, Franck, C (composer)
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this celebration of song is infused with heartfelt joy. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Song
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Isserlis and regular partner Connie Shih are perfect hosts, ensuring it all flows with deceptive ease, setting the scene with the wistful nobility of Hahn’s Variations chantantes sur un air... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2021
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When it comes to organ colour you won't get anything more dazzling than this. Frédéric Desenclos has chosen a glorious collection of pieces...[The Widor] sounds, like everything else here,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. The King of Instruments - A Voice Reborn
RecommendedStephen Cleobury (Harrison & Harrison organ)
On the whole, the organ is a pretty flexible beast, best in the Mendelssohn and Franck where heavy diapasons and rounded reeds make all the difference, but less spectacular in Bach, its mixtures,... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Franck: Trois Pieces & Trois Chorals
1880 Cavaillé-Coll organ, Cathédrale Saint-Croix, Orléans
Pétur Sakari (organ)
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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Franck, Debussy & Schumann - Works for violin & piano
Dora Schwarzberg (violin) & Martha Argerich (piano)
…Schwarzburg is evidently in harmony with Argerich, with each seemingly daring the other to greater extremes of tempo. — More…
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This is a wonderfully wholesome meal of somewhat neglected organ music composed by five of the most important French mâitres. The recording quality is absolutely first-rate and the playing... — More…
