Franck: String Quartet in D Major & Piano Quintet in F Minor

Featuring

Marc Danel
Gilles Milet
Vlad Bogdanas
Yovan Markovitch
Paavali Jumppanen
Quatuor Danel

César Franck

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Performer Biography

Paavali Jumppanen, the pianist on this album, is known for commissioning numerous works and collaborating with composers such as Pierre Boulez, Tristan Murail, and Henri Dutilleux.

Composer Biography

As a young man, Franck was a piano virtuoso with unusually large hands, but he lacked the charismatic stage presence of other virtuosos like Liszt or Thalberg.

Performer Biography

The Quatuor Danel is known for its bold interpretations of string quartet cycles by composers like Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Shostakovich, and Weinberg.

Composer Biography

César Franck, born in Liège, Belgium in 1821, came from a family living on the border of the Germanic and Latin worlds, and spoke with a strong accent that caused him some derision in Paris.

Cultural Impact

Marcel Proust, bedridden and depressed during World War I, considered the music of César Franck and Beethoven's late quartets his 'main spiritual food'.

Composer Biography

After an abrupt break with his father in 1846, César Franck turned away from the piano and did not compose for the instrument for about 30 years.

Composition History

Franck's Quintette was premiered in 1879 with Camille Saint-Saëns playing the piano part, but Saint-Saëns notably left the dedicated manuscript on the piano after the performance.