Special offer. Franck: Symphony in D Minor - Rédemption - Le chasseur maudit
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alain Altinoglu
Awards:
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Record Review, 14th January 2023, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic
Under Altinoglu, ..Franck’s Symphony in D Minor comes up fresh as paint. Once past the mysterious introduction, Altinoglu dives in to the Allegro, not taking Franck’s non troppo too much to...
Special offer. Franck: Symphony in D Minor - Rédemption - Le chasseur maudit
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alain Altinoglu
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Awards:
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Record Review, 14th January 2023, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic
Under Altinoglu, ..Franck’s Symphony in D Minor comes up fresh as paint. Once past the mysterious introduction, Altinoglu dives in to the Allegro, not taking Franck’s non troppo too much to...
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This recording marks the beginning of the collaboration between the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and its new music director, the French conductor Alain Altinoglu, who conducts the leading European and American orchestras and has made a reputation for himself in every repertory – not forgetting opera at Salzburg, Bayreuth, and La Monnaie in Brussels, where he is music director. Their first disc pays tribute to a composer whose bicentenary is celebrated in 2022, César Franck, with the famous Symphony in D minor and two less well-known works, presented in new editions: the symphonic poem Le Chasseur maudit (1882) and the large-scale symphonic interlude from the oratorio Rédemption, composed in 1872 after the Paris Commune, performed here in its first version, long considered lost.
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Awards and reviews
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Record Review14th January 2023Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards2024Nominated - Symphonic
July/August 2023
Under Altinoglu, ..Franck’s Symphony in D Minor comes up fresh as paint. Once past the mysterious introduction, Altinoglu dives in to the Allegro, not taking Franck’s non troppo too much to heart, and reveals the music’s tightly knit musical progress and dramatic thrust...this is one of the most interesting and bracingly fresh programs of Franck’s orchestral music to come along in some time
April 2023
Alpha’s finely engineered recording allows Franck’s scoring in all three works to be heard with admirable balance and clarity.
19th Janaruy 2023
All the performances are sober, well-paced and never overblown, with textures as transparent as the scoring allows them to be.
February 2023
[Symphony] Outer movements are taut and exciting...Altinoglu gives Franck’s organ-like scoring plenty of air; you can hear everything, notably the cornets when the second subject gets reprised. [Le Chasseur Maudit] One of the great tone poems, it’s thrilling here, Altinoglu whipping up a storm in the scary final minutes.
Record Review 14th January 2023
Beautifully paced not too slow, you feel Franck's' deliciously romantic harmonies unfolding smoothly and seductively. What a fine first recording for conductor Alain Altinoglu and his new orchestra the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and a great souvenir to have as we leave Franck's 200th anniversary year behind us.
