Proceedings

Photo: Phil Rowley

Day 1

Friday 9 December 2022

Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

10:00

Welcome

Professor Robert Adlington (Head of Research & Professor of Musicology), Professor Richard Langham Smith (Royal College of Music, London), & James Lipka (Organiser)



SESSION

‘Franckian Perspectives’

Moderator: François de Médicis (Professeur titulaire en musicologie, Université de Montréal)

10:15

Giselle Lee (Doctorante, University of Durham) 

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

10:45

James Lipka (Doctorant Royal College of Music)

Franck’s early piano works: documenting the implicit 

11:15

Tadhg Sauvey (University of Cambridge, Doctoral Candidate) 

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

12:30

Richard Langham Smith (Royal College of Music, London) in conversation with Emily Kilpatrick (Royal Academy of Music, London)

Towards the Franck settings of Victor Hugo

13:10

Concert of song-settings of the poetry of Victor Hugo


Max Blass-Laker piano RCM Singers


Monpou (1804–1841)

À genoux

Eyra Norman soprano


Niedermeyer (1802–1861)

La Mer

Jamie Woollard bass


Ne parlons pas d'amour

Alysia Hanshaw soprano

Charlotte Kennedy soprano


Puisqu'ici-bas toute âme

Charlotte Kennedy soprano


Franck (1822–1890)

S'il est un charmant gazon

Alysia Hanshaw soprano

Eyra Norman soprano


Passez, passez toujours

Jamie Woollard bass


Roses et papillons

Alyshia Hanshaw soprano


Fauré (1845–1924)

Le papillon et le fleur

Eyra Norman soprano


S'il est un charmant gazon (Rêve d'amour)

Alyshia Hanshaw soprano


Mai

Alyshia Hanshaw soprano


Dans les ruines d'une abbaye

Jamie Woollard bass

14:00

KEYNOTE LECTURES

François de Médicis (Professeur titulaire en musicologie, Université de Montréal) 

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

Respondent: Richard Langham Smith (Research Professor, Royal College of Music).

15:30

Lecture by Mme. Marie-Louise Langlais. (Titulaire adjointe de Jean Langlais à l’orgue de Sainte-Clotilde from 1979 to 1987, Paris; Docteur es lettres, Sorbonne Paris). 

Some Mysteries in the Organ Works of César Franck

Moderators: David Graham & Andrew McCrea

16:00

ORGAN MASTERCLASS

Mme. Marie-Louise Langlais (Organiste titulaire de l’Église de Sainte-Clotilde, Paris; Docteur es lettres, Sorbonne Paris). 

Prière from Six pièces - Ivan Leung

Trios Pièces

1. Fantaisie - Alex Knight

2. Cantabile - Ben Collyer

3. Pièce Heröique - Ben Collyer

Choral III  - Alexander Evans

18:00

Organ Recital 

Prière from Six pièces - Ivan Leung

Trios Pièces

1. Fantaisie - Alex Knight

2. Cantabile - Ben Collyer

3. Pièce Heröique - Ben Collyer

Choral III  - Alexander Evans

Day 2

Saturday 10 December 2022

PARRY ROOMS - PARALLEL SESSIONS

WEST PARRY ROOM



SESSION 2

'Franck and contemporary artistic movements’ 

Moderator: Richard Langham Smith (Professor at Royal College of Music, London)

9:30

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Joël-Marie Fauquet

Recorded interview with James Lipka and Violeta Casero, recorded in Bordeaux, August 2022. (In French with English subtitles)

10:00

Heribert Koch (Professor of Piano performance, Musikhochschule Münster) 

Farewell and Departure: Deux mélodies 'À félicité'

10:30

Étienne Jardin (Palazzetto Bru Zane) 

César Franck at the 1878 Paris World Fair



SESSION 3

‘New discoveries and Franck’s reception’ 

Moderator: Simon Trezise (Associate Professor, (retired 1 October 2021), Trinity College, Dublin)

11:30

André Short (RCM Doctoral student) 

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

12:00

Robert James Stove (Organist and Musicologist, author of César Franck, his Life and Times, 2012)

Recorded Presentation: ‘His Master’s Voice: Franck on Recordings'

12:30

Andrew McCrea (Organist and lecturer, RCM) 

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



SESSION 4

Reputation and Influence’ 

Moderator: Clair Rowden

14:00

Simon Trezise (Emeritus Professor Trinity College, Dublin) 

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

14:30

Robert Sholl (RAM and University of West London) 

César Franck, the choral and its legacy

15:00

Faith Sophie Beatrice Thompson (RNCM Doctoral student) 

Gabriel Pierné, Franckiste?

16:00

ROUNDTABLE & CONCLUSION

(Clair Rowden, Christiane Strucken-Paland, Richard Langham Smith, François de Médicis, Etienne Jardin, James Lipka)

16:50

Étienne Jardin

An introduction to the activities of Bru Zane

The Carne Room (formerly East Parry Room)



SESSION 5

Lasting Perceptions’ 

Moderator: Richard Langham Smith

11:30

Tatiana Aráez-Santiago (Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher, Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales) 

César Franck in Spain through the writings of Joaquín Turina

12:00

Christiane Strucken-Paland (President of Association of César Franck) 

Pianistic and organistic elements in the music of César Franck

12:30

Asher Ian Armstrong (University of Arkansas) 

Exploring Catholic and Erotic Performance Interpretations in the Prelude, Chorale and Fugue

14:00

PIANO MASTERCLASS with Danny Driver (Professor of Piano, Royal College of Music) 

Prélude, choral et fugue - Thomas Kelly

Prélude, fugue et variation (Bauer transcription) - Dmitrii Kalashnikov 

17:00

RECITAL

Anna Ovsyanikova and Tal Walker

Introduction to Mathieu Crickboom by Anna Osvyanikova

Works by Mathieu Crickboom, Claude Debussy & César Franck