Artist: Daniel Isoir
Album: César Franck: Triptyques [Piano Works / Œuvres pour piano]
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2021
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:05:45
Total Tracks: 11
Total Size: 1,01 GB

Tracklist:

01. Daniel Isoir – Prélude, Choral et Fugue in B Minor, FWV 21: I. Prélude. Moderato (04:47)
02. Daniel Isoir – Prélude, Choral et Fugue in B Minor, FWV 21: II. Choral. Poco più lento – Poco allegro (06:19)
03. Daniel Isoir – Prélude, Choral et Fugue in B Minor, FWV 21: III. Fugue. Tempo I (07:11)
04. Daniel Isoir – Choral No. 3 pour grand orgue in A Minor, FWV 38-40 (Arr.for piano) (11:46)
05. Daniel Isoir – Prélude, Aria et Final in E Major, FWV 23: I. Prélude. Allegro moderato e maestoso (08:30)
06. Daniel Isoir – Prélude, Aria et Final in E Major, FWV 23: II. Aria. Lento (06:55)
07. Daniel Isoir – Prélude, Aria et Final in E Major, FWV 23: III. Final. Allegro molto ed agitato (07:11)
08. Daniel Isoir – Prélude, Fugue et Variation in B Minor, FWV 30: I. Prélude. Andantino – Lento (04:06)
09. Daniel Isoir – Prélude, Fugue et Variation in B Minor, FWV 30: II. Fugue. Allegretto ma non troppo (02:48)
10. Daniel Isoir – Prélude, Fugue et Variation in B Minor, FWV 30: III. Variation. Andantino (03:04)
11. Daniel Isoir – Danse Lente in F Minor, FWV 22 (03:04)

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Daniel Isoir pays homage to his father André Isoir, one of the greatest French organists, by performing the works that marked his childhood: the three triptychs of Franck. In order to record this music with its contained lyricism, its fluid, subtle harmonies, illuminated by memories as fleeting as they are dazzling of high virtuosity, he has chosen an Erard piano of 1875 setting it off with magnificent luminosity and sumptuous colours.Before becoming an organist and leaving an indelible mark on the organ repertory, César Franck was a virtuoso pianist. This we have of course always known, yet the (re)foundational biography of Joël-Marie Fauquet (1999) was needed to gain the measure of this. Franck had everything to succeed as a pianist: a father of unbridled ambition for his offspring; an emperor’s first name (César Auguste); hands with interminable fingers; transcendent technique and the support of Franz Liszt. Everything! Everything, except the charisma of the virtuoso, being in fact a kind of doe-eyed ledger clerk, with a Liégois accent, who in 1846 would ‘crack’ and disappear from the concert platform. Though he continued throughout his life to give piano lessons in order to feed himself, he effected a reconversion and became an organist. He thus ceased to compose for the piano… for 38 years: a unique instance, no doubt, that readily kept him from the ease with which his pianist and organist colleagues such as Saint-Saëns, Widor and Fauré would pass from one medium to the other, and from the organ loft to the Parisian stage.