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 1
‘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
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
