CÉSAR FRANCK (1822–1890)

 

String Quartet, Piano Quintet

 

String Quartet in D major, FWV 9

Piano Quintet in F minor, FWV 7

 

Cristina Ortiz - Piano

 

Fine Arts Quartet:

Ralph Evans – violin

Efim Boico – violin

Yuri Gandelsman – viola

Wolfgang Laufer – cello

 

Cristina Ortiz and the Fine Arts Quartet again join forces for this recording of Franck’s Piano Quintet. The extraordinary emotional range of this work is unified by the tight thematic relationships typical of the composer’s ‘cyclic’ structuring. His String Quartet, composed ten years later, is a summit of Franck’s achievement, also cyclically conceived and revealing his admiration of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms.

 

Naxos 8572009