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Franck: Symphony in D minor, Chausson: Symphony in B flat major<\/p>
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra\/Jean-Luc Tingaud<\/p>
Naxos 8.574536\u00a0\u00a0 71:08 mins<\/em><\/p> The pairing of the Franck<\/a><\/strong> and Chausson<\/a><\/strong> symphonies is a favourite standby and understandably so: at around 70 minutes they fill a CD and share a musical language.<\/p> Conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud understands that the Franck is essentially a work of contrasts, and offers us a wide range of both tempos and dynamics, so that tensions between the two extremes become a guide for the rhetoric. Franck\u2019s long lines are intelligently and variously phrased, so there are no places where the argument flags. The only downside is that, from time to time, the first violins are swamped by the brass.<\/p> Tingaud\u2019s performance of the Chausson is more arguable. He has studied the two autographs of the work in the Biblioth\u00e8que nationale \u2013 the original draft and the copy sent to the printer \u2013 but has drawn conclusions from them that must be doubted. For a start proofs, whether accepted or corrected, are missing, so we have no final, definitive text.<\/p> Tingaud is undoubtedly right in saying the 1897 published score is not perfect. But he\u2019s wrong to say that Chausson writes \u2018crotchet becomes quaver\u2019 when he in fact writes \u2018quaver becomes crotchet\u2019, and in any case Tingaud obeys neither instruction, nor does he observe the presto<\/em> at the end of the first movement, while I dispute that grave<\/em> must be more \u2018an indication of character than of tempo<\/a><\/strong>\u2019. So what we have is a generally well-played version of this symphony, doing its best to disguise Chausson\u2019s shortwindedness and persistent reliance on chromatic sevenths, which may or may not have the composer\u2019s final imprimatur.<\/em><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n By Roger Nichols Published: Thursday, 29 February 2024 at 18:48 PM Franck: Symphony in D minor, Chausson: Symphony in B flat major Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra\/Jean-Luc Tingaud Naxos 8.574536\u00a0\u00a0 71:08 mins The pairing of the Franck and Chausson symphonies is a favourite standby and understandably so: at around 70 minutes they fill a CD and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":39594,"template":"","categories":[1,79,19],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/02\/franck-chausson-symphonies.jpg",900,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/02\/franck-chausson-symphonies-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/02\/franck-chausson-symphonies-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/02\/franck-chausson-symphonies-768x768.jpg",768,768,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/02\/franck-chausson-symphonies.jpg",800,800,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/02\/franck-chausson-symphonies.jpg",900,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/02\/franck-chausson-symphonies.jpg",900,900,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Roger Nichols Published: Thursday, 29 February 2024 at 18:48 PM Franck: Symphony in D minor, Chausson: Symphony in B flat major Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra\/Jean-Luc Tingaud Naxos 8.574536\u00a0\u00a0 71:08 mins The pairing of the Franck and Chausson symphonies is a favourite standby and understandably so: at around 70 minutes they fill a CD and…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/39593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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