Christiane Edinger, Hans-Peter Frank - Eduard Franck: Violin Concerto, Sinfonie Op. 47 (1999)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 71:54 | 382 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Fermate | Catalog: 20025
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 71:54 | 382 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Fermate | Catalog: 20025
Eduard was the brother of Hermann (1802-1855) who, as a writer on music, had contact with Wagner, Goethe and Heine. The other brother, Albert, had a bookshop in Paris and kept company with Chopin, Charles Hallé and Stephen Heller. The E minor Violin Concerto was composed in Cologne to which Franck had moved at the request of Ferdinand Hiller. It was premiered by another Hiller invitee, Theodor Pixis. It is a work of streaming intensity deliciously prone to lyrical flights akin to the Mendelssohn concerto (in the same key) but without the ineffable surge of smiling quicksilver. The last movement recalls a village fiddler and rustic dance floors across the continent.