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2023.01

Single issue

2023.01

€15,00

Uitverkocht

Content

  • Luk Bastiaens & Bart Wuilmus, Het Joris Potvlieghe/Flentrop-orgel in de Sint-Michielskerk te Leuven
  • Joris Lejeune, Catacombenmuziek of springlevend?
    — muziek van César Franck in historische opnames
  • Berichten — Nieuwe uitgaven — Concertagenda — Overzicht tijdschriften

Details

  • Joris Lejeune, Catacomb Music or Very Much Alive?

    — Music of César Franck in Historical Recordings
    One year before César Franck’s death, a new invention was introduced in Paris that would fundamentally change the world of music: Thomas Alva Edison’s phonograph. For the first time, it became possible to record music to be played back later.

    Franck composed for great virtuosos such as Louis Diémer and Eugène Ysaÿe. Their recordings (and many others) give us a clear idea of what he could expect from his performers. Strangely enough, scholarly attention to this information is a relatively recent development.
    The main part of this article can be found online: a as complete as possible database of Franck recordings made before 1950. A large part of this is now freely available on the internet. It is a fascinating journey of discovery that shows how much can change in a hundred years, and how music is particularly difficult to capture in words.