Tobias Frank: Transcriptions francaises (Marcel Dupré, Louis Vierne, Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Paul Dukas) Tobias Frank

• Marcel Dupré (1886 - 1971), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750):
• 1 Dupré, Bach: Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir BWV 29 (Kantate): Sinfonia 04:24
• Louis Vierne (1870 - 1937), Johann Sebastian Bach:
• 2 Vierne, Bach: Sonate für Flöte und Cembalo Es-Dur BWV 1031: Siciliana 02:49
• Marcel Dupré, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 - 1847):
• 3 Dupré, Bartholdy: Präludium und Fuge B-Dur, Op. 35 No. 6: 1. Präludium 03:34
• Marcel Dupré, Paul Dukas (1865 - 1935):
• 4 Dupré, Dukas: Der Zauberlehrling (L'apprenti sorcier) [Scherzo nach einer Ballade von Goethe] 12:06
• Louis Robilliard (b. 1939), Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924):
• 5 Robilliard, Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80: Fileuse 03:02
• 6 Robilliard, Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80: Sicilienne 03:55
• Marcel Dupré, Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887):
• 7 Dupré, Borodin: Eine Steppenskizze aus Mittelasien 07:29
• Jean-Paul Imbert (b. 1942), Sergej Prokofiev (1891 - 1953):
• 8 Imbert, Prokofiev: Romeo und Julia, Op. 64a (Ballett): Montagues et Capulets 03:56
• Jean-Léon Roques (1839 - 1923), Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918):
• 9 Roques, Debussy: Deux Arabesques: No. 1 Arabeske No. 1 05:32
• 10 Roques, Debussy: Deux Arabesques: No. 2 Arabeske No. 2 03:54
• Marcel Dupré, Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886):
• 11 Dupré, Liszt: Variationen über den Basso continuo aus der Kantate Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen 16:12
• Total Runtime 01:06:53

Info for Tobias Frank: Transcriptions francaises (Marcel Dupré, Louis Vierne, Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré, Paul Dukas)

"Orchestrating at the organ" — Marcel Dupré, one of the legendary personalities in the hall of fame of organ virtuosos, gave birth to this idea. And when twentieth-century virtuosos were underwhelmed by the 88 keys and three pedals that had been used by Franz Liszt, they needed a real cockpit. The console that Dupré created at his four-manual private organ in 1934 makes even captain Nemo’s imaginary console in Walt Disney’s Nautilus (20000 Leagues under the Sea) look rather minimal.

The young German organist Tobias Frank presents a kaleidoscopic programme that overflows with energy and features transcriptions by prominent figures of the French organ tradition, recorded at the luxuriously furnished four-manual organ at the Philharmonie Luxembourg (Karl Schuke organ builders, Berlin). Among other works, the disc includes Marcel Dupré’s transcriptions of Johann Sebastian Bach’s ‘Sinfonia’ from the cantata ‘Wir danken dir Gott, wir danken dir’, of Alexander Borodin’s ‘Dans les steppes de l’Asie centrale’, and Jean-Paul Imbert’s ‘Montagues et Capulets’ from Sergei Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. At times profound and magnificently opulent, at others sensitive and restrained: a spell-binding experience!

Tobias Frank, organ

Tobias Frank
studied church music, concert organ with Professor Martha Schuster, music education and elementary music pedagogy at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. He then followed this with in-depth studies of Anglican church music and organ in England, studying with Timothy Brown and David Briggs, as well as taking part in master classes with Vincent Warnier and Jane Parker-Smith. He also received major impulses for his organ playing and his work as a church musician from cathedral organist Christian Heiß (Eichstätt, Bavaria) and Church Music Director Gerd Kötter (Munich). Following his studies, he initially served as cantor in Fürstenfeldbruck before taking over the cantor’s office at the St. Johannis Church in Neubrandenburg (Mecklenburg) in 2008. Since 2015 he has been Organist and Director of Music at the Lutheran Cathedral St. Luke’s in Munich. There, he is responsible for the magnificent Steinmeyer organ from 1932 and an unusual musical program. Organ concerts regularly take him to important churches and cathedrals at home and abroad, including Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral in London and Notre-Dame in Paris. He continues to impress his audience with the versatility and colorfulness of his interpretations. He received unanimous praise in the international trade press for his CD recordings of Hänssler Profil Edition and Rondeau Production. His work is rounded off by productions for the radio and his work as arranger and publisher for the publishers Bärenreiter, Carus, Bosse, and Butz.

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