Franck: Piano Quintet in F Minor, FWV 7 Marc-Andre Hamelin

• César Franck (1822 - 1890): Piano Quintet in F Minor, FWV 7:
• 1 César Franck: Piano Quintet in F Minor, FWV 7: I. Molto moderato quasi lento - Allegro 15:10
• 2 César Franck: Piano Quintet in F Minor, FWV 7: II. Lento, con molto sentimento 10:16
• 3 César Franck: Piano Quintet in F Minor, FWV 7: III. Allegro con troppo ma non fuoco 08:44
• Total Runtime 34:10

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Am 26. März 2020 gab der schwedische Kulturmanager Martin Engstroem die Absage des diesjährigen Verbier Festivals bekannt. Das beliebte Musikevent in den Schweizer Alpen, von etablierten Stars der Klassikbranche genauso geschätzt wie von blutjungen Begabungen, lockt jährlich bis zu 35.000 Besucher ins idyllische Wallis. Engstroem gründete das Festival im Jahre 1994. Das Event gilt als eine der innovativsten Musikfestivitäten weltweit. Als Alternative zu der örtlichen Zusammenkunft hat Engstroem nun ein digitales Programm aufgelegt. Während der Festivalzeit sind im Netz via medici.tv und Espace 2/ RTSCulture Live-Aufzeichnungen der vergangenen Jahre, Video-Interviews und Hintergrundberichte sowie eigens für das virtuelle Festival initiierte neue Aufführungen zu erleben.

Vier Welterstveröffentlichungen

Unterdessen würdigt Deutsche Grammophon das Festival mit der Veröffentlichung von vier Live-Alben. Am 17. Juli 2020 kommt mit Schostakowitschs Klaviertrio Nr. 1 in c-Moll in der Interpretation von Janine Jansen (Geige), Mischa Maisky (Violoncello) und Lucas Debargue (Klavier) eine frenetisch gefeierte Aufführung aus dem Jahre 2017 in den Handel. Einen Vorgeschmack auf das Album bietet der ab 3. Juli im Stream und zum Download bereitstehende Vorabtrack mit dem träumerisch schweifenden Andante aus Schostakowitschs frühreifem Jugendwerk.

Ende Juli folgen dann drei weitere Alben, die ebenfalls mit Welterstveröffentlichungen von Live-Mitschnitten denkwürdiger Konzertereignisse in Verbier aufwarten. Das Repertoire umfasst Werke von César Franck, Peter Tschaikowsky und Sergei Rachmaninow, mitreißende, hochkarätige Kammermusik, interpretiert von Künstlern wie Joshua Bell, Lisa Batiashvili, Yuja Wang, Leonidas Kavakos, Marc-André Hamelin und vielen weiteren.

Marc-Andre Hamelin, Klavier
Joshua Bell, Violine
Pamela Frank, Violine
Nobuko Imai, Viola
Steven Isserlis, Cello

Marc-Andre Hamelin
“A performer of near-superhuman technical prowess” (The New York Times), pianist Marc André Hamelin is known worldwide for his unrivaled blend of consummate musicianship and brilliant technique in the great works of the established repertoire, as well as for his intrepid exploration of the rarities of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries – in concert and on disc – earning him legendary status as a true icon of the piano.

Mr. Hamelin begins the 19/20 season performing the Brahms Piano concerti with the Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Le Festival de Lanaudière, and the world premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth’s piano concerto at the BBC Proms, led by the composer. Other summer appearances include recitals at the Schubertiade, Helsingborg Piano Festival, Mänttä Music Festival, Domaine Forget, Orford Music Festival, the Newport Music Festival, and at the Rosendal Chamber Music Festival with friend and regular collaborator, Leif Ove Andsnes.

“A performer of near-superhuman technical prowess.” — The New York Times

Recital appearances this season include a return to Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage on the Great Artists Series. He also performs at Wigmore Hall, the George Enescu Festival, Ascona (Switzerland), Prague, Munich, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Moscow State Philharmonic, at the Elbphilharmonie for the Husum Rarities of Piano Music Festival, Monte Carlo, and the Heidelberg Festival, among other dates.

Mr. Hamelin is the inaugural guest curator for Portland Piano International, where he opens the season with two solo recitals. He returns to San Francisco Performances – a series with whom he has a long and deeply supportive artistic relationship – as a Perspectives Artist for their 40th Anniversary Season, performing a solo recital; Die Winterreise with tenor Mark Padmore; and the world premiere of his own Piano Quintet, commissioned by SFP and performed by himself and the Alexander String Quartet.

An exclusive recording artist for Hyperion Records, in 19/20, Hyperion releases two albums by Mr. Hamelin – one a solo disc and the other with the Takács Quartet. He recently released a disc of Schubert’s Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major and Four Impromptus; a landmark disc of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Concerto for Two Pianos with Leif Ove Andsnes; Morton Feldman’s For Bunita Marcus; and Medtner’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski. His impressive Hyperion discography of more than 60 recordings includes concertos and works for solo piano by such composers as Alkan, Godowsky, and Medtner, as well as brilliantly received performances of Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, and Shostakovich.

He was honored with the 2014 ECHO Klassik Instrumentalist of Year (Piano) and Disc of the Year by Diapason Magazine and Classica Magazine for his three-disc set of Busoni: Late Piano Music and an album of his own compositions, Hamelin: Études, which received a 2010 Grammy nomination and a first prize from the German Record Critics’ Association.

Mr. Hamelin was a distinguished member of the jury of the 15 th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2017 where each of the 30 competitors in the preliminary round performed Hamelin’s Toccata on L’Homme armé; this was the first time the composer of the commissioned work was also a member of the jury. Mr. Hamelin has composed music throughout his career, with nearly 30 compositions to his name. The majority of those works – including the Études and Toccata on L’Homme armé – are published by Edition Peters.

Mr. Hamelin makes his home in the Boston area with his wife, Cathy Fuller. Born in Montreal, Marc-André Hamelin is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the German Record Critics’ Association and has received seven Juno Awards and eleven GRAMMY nominations. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier de l’Ordre du Québec, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada.

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