This impressive Hungarian release pairs a young soprano from that country, the fortuitously named Gabriella Létai Kiss, with the little-known songs of César Franck -- the songs are claimed here to be receiving their first recordings. The works span Franck's career, from a group written in the early 1840s, when he was about 20, to murky, organ-like compositions from the last year of his life. Influential in the earlier ones are not only Schumann but also Schubert, whose genius was first coming into full view during this ...
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This impressive Hungarian release pairs a young soprano from that country, the fortuitously named Gabriella Létai Kiss, with the little-known songs of César Franck -- the songs are claimed here to be receiving their first recordings. The works span Franck's career, from a group written in the early 1840s, when he was about 20, to murky, organ-like compositions from the last year of his life. Influential in the earlier ones are not only Schumann but also Schubert, whose genius was first coming into full view during this period. Sample the very first song, Souvenance (Memory), which despite the specifically French landscapes in its lyrics is strongly suggestive of Gretchen am Spinnrade. The songs seem to distill the various phases of Franck's compositional style down to a two-person size (one song has a cello as well) -- no mean feat in the later works, which draw both on Franck's turn toward the organ and on his encounter with Wagner's operas. Most unusual is a very late song, La procession (The...
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