Eduard Franck - Orchestral Works I (Christiane Edinger; Hans-Peter Frank)

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Composer: Eduard Franck

• (01) Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 30
• (04) Symphony in A major, Op. 47

Christiane Edinger, violin

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken

Hans-Peter Frank, conductor

Date: 1998

Label: Audite

https://audite.de/en/product/CD/20025-e_franck_orchestral_works_i.html

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Review

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.

The Symphony in B flat major represents a crossroads between early Schumann and Mendelssohn. The horn solos are very colourful and make a memorable effect although the execution is not ideally polished or rounded. There are some Schumann-like accelerandi like those that inject the drama into the Fourth Symphony. You will find yourself easily hooked whether by the fluttery athleticism of the second movement, the winsome flute-playing of the Adagio with its momentous atmosphere or the Mendelssohnian chasseur-style allegro writing. This is a strong mood invoker, relaxed and Beethovenian (Symphonies 4 and 8).

Ludger Böckenhoff and Audite should take a curtain call for their valiant advocacy of this otherwise disgracefully disregarded figure. Meritorious and highly attractive music at last out into the light of common day.

-- Rob Barnett, MusicWeb International

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Eduard Franck (5 October 1817 – 1 December 1893) was a German composer, pianist and music pedagogue. He studied with Felix Mendelssohn as a private student in Düsseldorf and Leipzig. As a talented pianist, he embarked upon a dual career as a concert artist and teacher for more than four decades during the course of which he held many positions. Although highly regarded as both a teacher and performer, Franck, as a composer, never achieved the public recognition of his better known contemporaries such as Mendelssohn, Schumann or Liszt. His chamber music is generally considered amongst his finest compositions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Franck

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Christiane Edinger (born 20 March 1945 in Potsdam) is a German violinist. She studied at the Berlin University of the Arts with Vittorio Brero (1960-64), with Joseph Fuchs at the Juilliard School (1965-67), and in 1963/64, she also attended courses given by Nathan Milstein in Gstaad. Edinger made her debut as a concert violinist at the Berliner Festspiele in 1962, then her Carnegie Hall debut in 1966. This was followed by concert tours to various European countries, the USA, the Soviet Union, South America, India, Africa, China and Japan. From 1994 until her retirement, Edinger was professor at the Lübeck Academy of Music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Edinger

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Hans-Peter Frank (born 12 August 1937 in Dresden) is a German-born pianist, violist, and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Germany and Sweden. He graduated from Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden as pianist, violist and conductor. During his study, Frank worked as an assistant-conductor of Kurt Masur and Otmar Suitner. He has worked with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and was the principal conductor and artistic director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra from 1980 to 1990. From 1988 to 1996, Frank was GMD of the Staatskapelle Weimar.
https://www.bolshoirussia.com/company/orchestra/conductor/frank/

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Peter_Frank

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