Franck, C.: String Quartet in D Major / Piano Quintet in F Minor

Featuring

Ralph Evans
Efim Boico
Yuri Gandelsman
Wolfgang Laufer
Cristina Ortiz
Fine Arts Quartet

César Franck

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Performer Biography

Cristina Ortiz, a Brazilian pianist, is known for her passion and spontaneity, and has developed a unique bond with audiences worldwide over her 25-year career.

Composer Biography

From 1858, César Franck built a reputation as an organist at Sainte-Clotilde, where a new Cavaillé-Coll organ was installed, considered the finest of its kind.

Composer Biography

César Franck, born in Liège, Belgium, in 1822, was initially encouraged by his father to pursue a career as a virtuoso performer.

Composer's Artistic Vision

From the 1870s, Franck dedicated himself to composition, deeply influenced by hearing Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in 1874.

Performer Biography

The Fine Arts Quartet, founded in Chicago in 1946, has recorded and toured internationally for over half a century and has been based at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 1963.

Composer Biography

Franck's marriage in 1848 to Blanche Saillot Desmousseaux, one of his pupils and daughter of important figures in the Comédie Française, caused a break with his father.

Composition History

Franck's Piano Quintet in F minor, written in 1878-79, was dedicated to Camille Saint-Saëns, who played the piano part at its 1880 premiere but reportedly left the score behind and discouraged further performances.