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C​é​sar Franck: Chorale #3 in A minor

from French Masterworks from St. John the Divine by Jonathan Dimmock

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The Choral in A minor is Franck’s final work. Though weighed down by lingering effects of a bus accident in April of 1890, he made his way up to the organ at the Church of St. Clotilde, where he was Organist Titulaire, to verify and annotate the registrations and dynamics of this piece. At his death that November, the manuscript lay by his bed. The trio of chorales constitute an altogether unprecedented fantasy form in which a few contrasting themes, the chorale of each predominant among them, evolve and develop in symphonic fashion. In his third chorale (the A minor) an energetic, almost tortured opening, contrasts arpeggiated chords with chromatic progressions until a sweet, lyrical theme, with sensuous underpinnings from strings and the more evocative other flues, enters to put the opening briefly behind. An uncertain major/minor balancing act ensues, with the ambivalence eventually escalating into grandiloquent statements from all divisions. The instrument’s full tonal resources then unite to call forth related fragments of the themes, again with no commitment to major or minor, in an irresistible, massive progression toward the end. The final chord is affirmatively in the major.
- Jonathan Dimmock & Christopher Greenleaf

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from French Masterworks from St. John the Divine, released January 23, 2023

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Jonathan Dimmock San Francisco, California

Jonathan Dimmock (www.JonathanDimmock.com) is an internationally renowned concert organist. He is the Principal Organist of the Legion of Honor Museum, Organist for the San Francisco Symphony, and Director of Music at Congregation Sherith Israel. He was Organ Scholar of Westminster Abbey. and worked at 3 cathedrals - St. John the Divine (NYC), St. Mark’s (Mpls), and Grace (San Francisco). ... more

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