Early Organ Works / Fragments: Organ: Instrumental Album

Early Organ Works/Fragments-Bärenreiter has joined forces with the International César Franck Society to produce a five-volume complete edition of the organ works of César Franck. In addition to all accessible sources it draws on previously neglected manuscripts making it possible to offer a reliable musical text based on meticulous text-critical comparisons. Text variants cases of doubt and editorial decisions are recorded in a comprehensive Critical Commentary.Volume 1 edited by Christiane Strucken-Paland is the first publication to contain all of Franck s surviving early organ works fragments and variants. Special attention has been given to his largest early work the Fantasy in A major which was left unpublished during his lifetime and only resurfaced a few years ago. Here Franck already displays his consummate mastery of thematic development.Organ works at the forefront of Franck scholarshipForeword (Fr/Eng/Ger) and comprehensive Critical Commentary (Eng)With facsimile illustrations