Franck & Chausson: Symphonies
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Luc Tingaud
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
Tingaud understands that the Franck is essentially a work of contrasts, and offers us a wide range of both tempos and dynamics, so that tensions between the two extremes become a guide for the...
Franck & Chausson: Symphonies
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Luc Tingaud
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
Tingaud understands that the Franck is essentially a work of contrasts, and offers us a wide range of both tempos and dynamics, so that tensions between the two extremes become a guide for the...
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César Franck’s only symphony came at a time when the French music world was seeking to rival the great Austro-German tradition. The ‘darkness-to-light’ narrative of the Symphony in D minor owes a debt to Beethoven and there is a unique power within its distinctive themes, innovative cyclic form and general gravitas. Franck’s student Ernest Chausson was no doubt inspired by his teacher’s thematic metamorphoses, but the anguished influence of Wagner is also ever present. The published score of the Symphony in B flat major includes many errors which conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud has meticulously corrected after careful study of Chausson’s autograph manuscripts.
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International Classical Music Awards2025Nominated - Symphonic Music
March 2024
Tingaud understands that the Franck is essentially a work of contrasts, and offers us a wide range of both tempos and dynamics, so that tensions between the two extremes become a guide for the rhetoric. Franck’s long lines are intelligently and variously phrased, so there are no places where the argument flags.
