César Franck and His Legacy

Programme

Giselle Lee – Franck’s Legacy: The Development of French Cyclic Form since 1890

James Lipka – Franck’s early piano works: documenting the implicit 

Tadhg Sauvey – Franck as musicien officiel : Les Béatitudes at International Festivals 1878–1910

Richard Langham Smith in conversation with Emily Kilpatrick – Towards the Franck settings of Victor Hugo

François de Médicis – Searching for the Quintessential Franck: French Reception and Stylistic Affiliations of the Piano Quintet in f minor

Marie-Louise Langlais – Some Mysteries in the Organ Works of César Franck

Joël-Marie Fauquet – Recorded interview with James Lipka and Violeta Casero,

Heribert Koch – Farewell and Departure: Deux mélodies « À félicité »

Étienne Jardin – César Franck at the 1878 Paris World Fair

André Short – From La Bande à Franck to Composer in her own right: Augusta Holmès’s Lutèce and post-Conservatoire works

Robert James Stove – His Master’s Voice: Franck on Recordings

Andrew McCrea – The reception of Franck’s organ music in Britain to around 1960

Simon Trezise – César Franck’s Symphony in Performance and its fall from Grace

Robert Sholl – César Franck, the choral and its legacy

Faith Sophie Beatrice Thompson – Gabriel Pierné, Franckiste ?

Tatiana Aráez-Santiago – César Franck in Spain through the writings of Joaquín Turina

Christiane Strucken-Paland – Pianistic and organistic elements in the music of César Franck

Asher Ian Armstrong – Exploring Catholic and Erotic Performance Interpretations in the Prelude, Chorale and Fugue

Roundtable & Conclusion : Clair Rowden, Christiane Strucken-Paland, Richard Langham Smith, François de Médicis, Etienne Jardin, James Lipka).