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Franck, C - Prelude, Aria et Final M23 (1886/7)
Genres:
Instrumental » Piano Solos
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The sound quality throughout is amazingly good...there are several valuable additions to this great pianist’s discography. Not least among them is a superb live performance of the Emperor Concerto,... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Archive/Reissue of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Collectionneur
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Historic Recording
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There is much fine piano playing here. Nikolai Lugansky not only storms Franck’s barns with authority and rich tone but in the quieter passages finds a tenderness for which the composer has... — More…
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Hough has a dream-ticket combination of virtues – astonishing agility, a faultless ear for texture, fine-tuned stylistic sensibility and an exceptional understanding of harmonic and structural... — More…
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Franck: Symphonic Variations & Piano Pieces
RecommendedBertrand Chamayou (piano), Olivier Latry (harmonium)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stéphane Denève
This is an outstanding release in every way. In fact, I cannot recall another that included all Franck's masterpieces for the piano on a single disc and in which, moreover, every performance... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Historical Recording
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Franck's Prélude, Aria and Final and Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Bach are big in both scale and ambition, with the admirable Lanyi drawing out their many and varied colours superbly. — More…
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Documentation is good and the transfers too...These discs trace Cortot in the studio between 1947 and 1954 and reflect the vicissitudes of the time, and sometimes the toll taken on the pianist... — More…
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Gidon Kremer's 1977 duo recital with Oleg Maisenberg at the Schwetzingen Festival launched his international career with a spellbinding Prokofiev First Sonata, lyrical Beethoven Op. 96 and a... — More…
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[The Caprice's] final movement receives an exciting performance from Lazar. He also delivers airy textures in the first two movements of the Prélude, Choral et Fugue, another late work, before... — More…
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