Franck: Orchestral Works Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Voices, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Jean-Luc Tingaud

• César Franck (1822 - 1890):
• 1 Le chasseur maudit, FWV 44 13:55
• Psyché, FWV 47, Pt. 1 (Version for Choir & Orchestra):
• 2 Psyché, FWV 47, Pt. 1 (Version for Choir & Orchestra): I. Le sommeil de Psyché 09:17
• 3 Psyché, FWV 47, Pt. 1 (Version for Choir & Orchestra): II. Psyché enlevée par les zéphyrs 02:36
• 4 Psyché, FWV 47, Pt. 2 (Version for Choir & Orchestra): III. Les jardins d'Eros 03:55
• 5 Psyché, FWV 47, Pt. 2 (Version for Choir & Orchestra): IV. Amour! Source de toute vie! 06:47
• 6 Psyché, FWV 47, Pt. 2 (Version for Choir & Orchestra): V. Psyché et Eros 08:27
• 7 Psyché, FWV 47, Pt. 3 (Version for Choir & Orchestra): VI. Amour, elle a connu ton nom 04:35
• 8 Psyché, FWV 47, Pt. 3 (Version for Choir & Orchestra): VIIa. Souffrances et plaintes de Psyché 06:56
• 9 Psyché, FWV 47, Pt. 3 (Version for Choir & Orchestra): VIIb. Souffrances et plaintes de Psyché 04:37
• César Franck:
• 10 Les éolides, FWV 43 10:06
• Total Runtime 01:11:11

Info for Franck: Orchestral Works

César Franck was a childhood prodigy who gained later renown as an organist and teacher. His compositions received scant attention until the success of Le Chasseur maudit, a symphonic morality tale that vividly portrays the ‘accursed huntsman’ from his defiance of the Sabbath to a dramatic chase and a horrific fate. Les Éolides is infused with Wagnerian colours and depicts the mythological Aeolids as they reawaken nature with their song. Franck’s lushly orchestrated final symphonic poem Psyché expresses the power of love in dreams and a passionate union.

"Though his Symphony has passed down into the major orchestral repertoire, Cesar Franck enjoyed little critical concert hall success as a composer during his lifetime. Even today his final symphonic poem, Psyche, composed just three years before his death in 1890, is seldom heard. Divided into three parts and containing eight sections, it relates a version of the Orpheus myth of Psyche and Eros that has a happy ending, the lovers drifting to heaven in each others arms. Rather unexpectedly from Franck, there are highly charged passages clothed in vivid colours, this extended score lasting some forty-eight minutes calling for a mixed chorus to be added to the orchestra in the Second and Third Parts. It receives a vivid performance, the conductor, Jean-Luc Tingaud, drawing superb playing from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. The disc opens with a work that has remained in today’s concert programmes, Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman), an earlier symphonic poem that relates the Count who blasphemes by ignoring the church bell and goes out hunting on the Sabbath Day. He is accursed, his punishment being to ride for eternity on his wild steed. I have never encountered such a vivid reading. The release also includes Les Eolides whose survival has largely come as convenient ‘filler’ on CD releases of the Symphony. It too looked for a literary source to provide its inspiration, this time relating the mythological women who awaken nature with their song, Tingaud is equally persuasive in creating the work’s pastel colours. To all of this add the fabulous sound engineering, and I will not be surprised if it proves to be my record of the year." (David’s Review Corner)

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Voices
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Jean-Luc Tingaud, conductor

Jean-Luc Tingaud
studied with the French composer and conductor Manuel Rosenthal. He has made numerous appearances as music director for prestigious opera productions, including Pénélope and Le Roi malgré lui (Wexford Festival), Roméo et Juliette (Lisbon and Arena di Verona), La Damnation de Faust (Reims), Pelléas et Mélisande and Carmen (Toulon) and The Turn of the Screw (Lille). His concert appearances include performances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO)
is one of Europe’s leading symphony orchestras. Its artistic team is led by Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård, who was appointed RSNO music director in 2018. The orchestra performs across Scotland and appears regularly at the Edinburgh International Festival, the BBC Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall and the St Magnus Festival, Orkney, in addition to undertaking international tours. The RSNO has a worldwide reputation for the quality of its recordings, receiving two Diapason d’Or de l’année awards for symphonic music and eight GRAMMY Awards nominations.

RCS Voices
was established at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2014. The group gave its first public performances in Glasgow in 2015, when it also made its Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) debut as the chorus in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, under whom it performed in the EIF’s 2019 production of Götterdämmerung alongside the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

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