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Franck: Complete Songs and Duets

Tassis Christoyannis (bass), Jeff Cohen, Véronique Gens (soprano), Enrico Graziani

Franck: Complete Songs and Duets

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While Véronique Gens in the duets is her usual mellif luous self, and Jeff Cohen a capable accompanist, the piano’s bass octaves suggest that the instrument has seen better days.

BBC Music Magazine, July 20222 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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Franck: Complete Songs and Duets

Tassis Christoyannis (bass), Jeff Cohen, Véronique Gens (soprano), Enrico Graziani

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Awards:

While Véronique Gens in the duets is her usual mellif luous self, and Jeff Cohen a capable accompanist, the piano’s bass octaves suggest that the instrument has seen better days.

BBC Music Magazine, July 20222 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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The alluring voices of Tassis Christoyannis and Véronique Gens immerse the listener in the atmosphere of the nineteenth-century Parisian salons and the mélodies performed there. The composer and organist César Franck, famed for his instrumental music, proves himself equally skilled in setting poems by Musset, Hugo, Chateaubriand, Daudet and Dumas. This first complete recording of his works for voice and piano ranges over his entire creative life.

Contents and tracklist

Franck, C: Les Cloches du soir
Work length2:26
Franck, C: Nocturne
Work length3:38
Franck, C: Le vase brisé
Work length3:47
Franck, C: Roses et papillons
Work length2:16
Franck, C: Le mariage des roses
Work length2:17
Franck, C: L’émir de Bengador
Work length4:28
Franck, C: Ninon
Work length2:21
Franck, C: Lied (Lucien Paté)
Work length1:55
Franck, C: Robin Gray
Work length5:14
Franck, C: S’il est un charmant gazon
Work length1:59
Franck, C: S’il est un charmant gazon, FWV 78 (II)
Work length2:03
Franck, C: Aimer
Work length4:21
Franck, C: Duos (6) pour voix égales, FWV 89
Work length15:41
VI. La Chanson du vannier
Track length3:04
I. L’Ange gardien
Track length2:42
II. Aux petits enfants
Track length2:15
III. La Vierge à la crèche
Track length2:49
IV. Les Danses de Lormont
Track length2:57
V. Soleil
Track length1:54
Franck, C: L’ange et l’enfant
Work length5:00
Franck, C: Passez toujours
Work length6:45
Franck, C: Souvenance
Work length2:58
Franck, C: Pour les victimes, FWV 86
Work length2:28
Franck, C: Paris
Work length7:15
Franck, C: Patria
Work length6:35
Franck, C: Les trois exilés, FWV 77
Work length6:00
Franck, C: A cette terre où l’on ploie sa tente
Work length5:46
Franck, C: Le Sylphe M73
Work length4:20
Franck, C: La Procession
Work length4:42

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Awards and reviews

  • International Classical Music Awards
    2023
    Nominated - Vocal Music

July 2022

While Véronique Gens in the duets is her usual mellif luous self, and Jeff Cohen a capable accompanist, the piano’s bass octaves suggest that the instrument has seen better days.
2 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)

May 2022

Tassis Christoyannis and Jeff Cohen have become Bru Zane’s interpreters of choice for their forays into the song repertory and their interpretations have the same finesse and expressive detail that we find in their surveys of Hahn and La Tombelle.
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