Instrumental, Organ Solos, Franck, C (composer)
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Both [the Thalberg and Liszt paraphrases] are delivered with Batsashvili’s trademark expressiveness and finely calibrated control, and in the Liszt she finds a way to let her sound unfurl like... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, Instrumental Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrumental
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Special offer. 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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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When it comes to organ colour you won't get anything more dazzling than this. Frédéric Desenclos has chosen a glorious collection of pieces...[The Widor] sounds, like everything else here,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, Editor's Choice
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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... —
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Alain is a completely involved communicator.
More than anyone else she delves into the very soul of these works. Thus we have an intensely prayerful Prière, a majestically statuesque Grandepièce... —Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, December 2020, Also Recommended
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Franck: Symphony & Poulenc: Organ Concerto
Simon Preston (organ)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
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Make no mistake, this is artistry of the highest order. In their hands, Strauss's melodic fluency somehow manages to combine rich luxuriance with deftness of gesture. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Chamber Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, Editor's Choice
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Franck: Trois Pieces & Trois Chorals
1880 Cavaillé-Coll organ, Cathédrale Saint-Croix, Orléans
Pétur Sakari (organ)
Sakari lays out the thematic material of Franck’s ‘Fantaisie’ with a sense of both the music’s pensive quality and its sweep. He manages to make this first of the composer’s Trois Pièces, written... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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These 12 arrangements (by the ensemble) are of stylistic and historical diversity...Muhly’s Look for Me invests a US folk song with dark jazz; Janacek’s Zdenka Variations is an appealing discovery. —
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Keeping things very much 'en famille', virtually everything on the CD owes a debt to the musical heritage of Notre Dame; and if that wasn't enough to justify the pedestrian-seeming programme,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Instrumental Choice
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