Name: NOSPR in Chamber Mode César Franck
Start: 2022-12-15T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-12-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: NOSPR

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Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Violinist

Katarzyna Jawor

Violin I

Dorota Cieślińska

Violin II

Violist

Dawid Jadamus

Viola

Cellist

Natalia Kurzac-Kotula

Cello

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Grzegorz Biegas

Piano

NOSPR in Chamber Mode / César Franck

Katowice

Poland

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NOSPR in Chamber Mode / César Franck: String Quartet in D major Franck (+1 More)

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Streichquartett D-Dur

Piano Quintet in F Minor

Saurav Kumar

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In the 19th century, string quartets were not a French specialty. Thus, it comes as no surprise that César Franck, a chamber music enthusiast, based his works, rich and replete with emotions, on German models. And although the antisemitic Wagner would certainly grind his teeth upon hearing how the String Quartet in D major uses broad melodics and complex harmonies much to his liking alongside a lightness resembling the works of the Jew Mendelssohn, one must admit that the French composer married the two opposing elements flawlessly.
Over a decade earlier, Franck’s Piano Quintet in F minor did not meet with either connoisseurs’ or fellow composers’ approval. Its intensive expression was something controversial and excessive. Debussy dubbed the piece “an unceasing paroxysm”. Today, it can take grasp the listener with the intensiveness if emotion and the immense, almost orchestral, sound. There are few chamber works so powerful!

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NOSPR in Chamber Mode / César Franck by Franck, From (2022/2022), NOSPR, Katowice, Poland

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