CÉSAR FRANCK (1822⁠–⁠1890)

PIANO RARITIES
ORIGINAL WORKS AND TRANSCRIPTIONS

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Jean-Pierre Armengaud

‘The music of César Franck has helped to shape me as a musician and has accompanied me throughout my life. I had the opportunity to work on Prélude, Choral et Fugue based on a score with fingering by the great pianist Yves Nat. With the passing of time, I have to come to particularly like the showers of arpeggios of the Prélude, which are like vibrations of memory of the notes of the main theme. It makes one think a little of Marcel Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past” novels. Les Variations symphoniques is one of the first works I played with an orchestra. I have always felt that there was a profound search for originality in the form and flexibility in Franck’s writing, with an expressive sensitivity that is often both stormy and inquisitive.’

– Jean-Pierre Armengaud