Franck: Organ Works
Colin Walsh (organ)
Walsh is an instinctive Franck-ophile, adept at intimacy as well as pompous-free grandeur.
Franck: Organ Works
Colin Walsh (organ)
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Walsh is an instinctive Franck-ophile, adept at intimacy as well as pompous-free grandeur.
About
This new recording of some of Cesar Franck's greatest organ works by the widely praised young British organist Colin Walsh, Organist Laureate, at the magnificent instrument in Lincoln Cathedral is a significant addition to the catalogue of organ music. From the Trois Chorales, composed in Franck's final months - he kept the manuscript of them by his death-bed - to the well-known Pièce Héroïque and the beautiful Cantabile, this collection spans virtually the entire gamut of this great composer's music for the one instrument above all which is central to his art. The recording quality is state-of-the-art.
Contents and tracklist
Work length15:07
This work is only available as an album download.
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Work length13:49
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Work length13:37
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Franck, C:
Six Pièces No. 6 B-Flat Major, Op. 21 "Final": Allegro maestoso
Work length13:03
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Awards and reviews
January 2009
Walsh is an instinctive Franck-ophile, adept at intimacy as well as pompous-free grandeur.
2nd January 2009
Colin Walsh impresses from start to finish with playing that abounds in insight and sensitivity. Especially impressive is Walsh’s astute selection of tempi – breathing life into the soul of the music...The Lincoln Cathedral acoustic is pleasing and is here warm and admirably balanced.
Church Music Quarterly January 2009
Walsh’s cantabile playing is second to none: a combination of perfect legato and a profound sense of the musical direction of each phrase...The interpretations are highly dramatic and he is not afraid to use the swell pedal with vigour, yet Colin Walsh is, at all times, fully in control of the architecture of even the largest works.
