Cesar Franck- Symphonic Variations for Piano & Orchestra I • Volker Hartung, conductor

[Charleyboy484]

who the hell chopped the end off?

[khashayar44]

Wonderful! 

[jhonwask]

Always loved this piece. Nice job.

[JoeTownley]

I don't know of any composers who write like this today. I just finished a work for piano and orchestra in the romantic tradition that is here on YouTube, "Symphonic Variations After a Theme of Cesar Franck" modeled after these very Franck Symphonic Variations but I'm the only one I know. Everything I hear by composers today is ultra avant-garde so their audience is very limited. OTOH, I would not be taken seriously by the community-at-large for writing in the traditional style.

[dalecampbl7]

I've always found Franck's music to be so overwhelming....like a force to be reckoned with...a force of nature that doesn't dissipate until the VERY end. true heavy weight of music.

[afertyus1000]

@dalecampbl7 yes i agree it's very involved and cannot be appreciated fully in one hearing

[dalecampbl7]

@afertyus1000 I rank Franck's piano quintet, violin sonata, symphony in D-minor among the greatest late romantic works...I think his piano quintet rivals Brahms'...but luckily we can appreciate it and isnt it wonderful :)

[afertyus1000]

@dalecampbl7 yes i can't believe humans can make such music definitely one for my desert island discs

[freakout43]

i have do do a report on cesar frank and part of it i have to find some music composed by him is this it help!!! this is for school and a big part of my grade

[JorPove]

Excelente ejecucion del pianista,la orquesta y magistralmente dirigido. Es una bellisima pieza.

[sanjosemike]

Mr. Hong could not play this more beautifully or with more feeling. He never rushes it. It is always in control and deeply moving.

Although I also play this work, he teaches me a lot, but honesty compels me to say that I don't play it nearly as well, and may never.

Hat's off!

sanjosemike

[Aery75]

I love this!

Though it is not major,but very beautiful

[diegeiga]

Brilliantly played!