Eduard Franck News
German composer (1817-1893)
- piano
- classical music
- Kingdom of Prussia
- composer, pianist, university teacher
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-29 19:16:31
NEP Piques Our Interest
[…] instrument, mechanical features can differ dramatically from one instrument to the next; pistons are in different locations, the number of keyboards varies, the action is sensitive or sluggish (causing a disconcerting delay in sound). These kinds of radical shifts can be dangerously distracting during a live performance; playing with a score is less risky. Gil, I know that you often memorize scores you conduct, but Paul Jacobs has done the complete Bach, Messiaen, Brahms, and Franck from memory? Wadaya think of that? GR: Well, that’s got to be like 70 hours of music! Back to the current interview. Paul, what kind of an electronic organ will you be using? PJ: We’ll use an Allen Digital Organ for the performance. Since the venue doesn’t already have a pipe organ, we needed to secure a digital instrument for John Harbison’s superbly crafted composition to be programmed. My philosophy is that it’s preferable […]
2024-02-26 19:53:54
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-17 13:50:36
[…] write a book about this symphony a few years later (2011). Eventually I began to go more often to hear concerts in Symphony Hall and to watch Charles Munch. I was blown away by my first experience of Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion under Munch’s direction, in 1957. That year he also directed the premiere of David Diamond’s Sixth Symphony, which was savaged by the critics the next day, but I had gone there to hear Franck’s Symphony in D Minor. In college I went to Symphony much more frequently, sometimes packing a brown-bag sandwich and skipping a Friday morning class to get in line for 90-cent rush seats (second balcony center). In 1957 I heard the Boston premiere of Stravinsky’s Agon, which used up so much rehearsal time that Bruckner’s Seventh, which rounded out the program, suffered in accuracy. I wonder if Munch really loved Bruckner, in any case. In […]
2024-02-07 09:47:00
Sophisticated timbres & detailed textures: UK premiere of Helen Grime's String Quartet No. 2 & Ravel's String Quartet from Heath Quartet at Wigmore Hall
[…] on your music system at home, then it was this one. The good news is that you can, NMC Recordings issued the Heath Quartet's recording of Grime's String Quartet No. 2 as part of Bracing Change 2, a compilation of new work for string quartet which also includes music by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Paul Newland. Further details from the NMC website.There is curious tradition in French music of composers only writing a single string quartet. Franck, Chausson and Debussy all wrote a single example. Ravel wrote his quartet in 1904 and the influence of Debussy's quartet can be felt (too much so, according to some of Ravel's contemporaries). Ravel's teacher, Faure, would only write his quartet 20 years later in 1924.Ravel's sophisticated control of timbre and texture perhaps encouraged the quartet to programme this work after the Grime premiere. But in the Ravel, the players also mined a remarkable sense […]
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