Find release reviews and credits for César Franck: Piano Music - Stephen Hough on AllMusic - Find release reviews and credits for César Franck: Piano Music - Stephen Hough on AllMusic - Main Album César Franck: Piano Music. Release Date March 10, Label. Hyperion. Format CD. Duration Prélude: Moderato. Stephen.

For those that listen to classical piano music this recording is indispensable. On two grounds: at his best (Prelude/aria/fugue, and the Troisieme Choral), Franck approaches Bach in his implacable, peremptory use of figured bass; and Beethoven in his creation of 'inevitable' music, by which I mean he enlists our unconscious intuition of where he's going, to wonderful effect/5(5).

Franck's comment on the occasion -- "We have just heard something quite extraordinary -- music which links our era with that of Couperin and Rameau" -- no doubt owes nearly as much to Mlle Poitevin's style sévère "purity" as it does to the scintillant crispness of Chabrier's muse, which lends a clue to the clarity and dry brilliance.

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Franck: Piano Music Stephen Hough. out of 5 stars 5. Audio CD. £ Franck: Symphonic Poems Franck. out of 5 stars 3. Audio CD. 4 offers from £ Next. What other items do customers buy after viewing this item? If only all music on CD could be recorded this well. These fine discs will be treasured by anyone with a weak spot /5(6).

Benjamin Grosvenor's fourth album on the Decca Classics label, Homages explores works by great composers paying tribute to their predecessors. Mendelssohn and Franck look back to the Prelude & Fugue form made so popular by Bach. Busoni takes Bach's great solo violin Chaconne and reinterprets it in a bold and imaginative transcription for piano.

The distinguished Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky plays works for solo piano by Claude Debussy. The cd r ecorded in , at Médiapôle Saint-Césaire, Impasse de Mourgues, Arles, France. Harmonia Mundi's centenary edition of the works of Claude Debussy necessarily includes several different interpretations of his keyboard music, and Nikolai Lugansky's single-disc contribution offers only a.