{"product_id":"quintetto-chigiano-franck-piano-quintet-1950-pacm023","title":"QUINTETTO CHIGIANO Franck: Piano Quintet (1950) - PACM023","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eFRANCK \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ePiano Quintet in F minor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770D90\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770EC0\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770FF0\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770D90\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770EC0\"\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D770FF0\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D772E90\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D772E90\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eDecca West Hampstead Studios, 4-5 April 1950\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eOriginally released in 1950 as Decca LXT2520\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eDuration 36:30\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D775470\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp data_liveedit_tagid=\"000000000D775340\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eQuintetto Chigiano:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eSergio Lorenzi, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003epiano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eRiccardo Brengola, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eviolin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eMario Benvenuti, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eviolin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eGiovanni Leone, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eviola\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eLino Filippini, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003ecello\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fBill Rosen's Review578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fOne of the greatest performances of a chamber work I have ever heard578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003ePerhaps I should just let my heart take over and say that as in its later recording of the Brahms F Minor Piano Quintet (PACM010), this recording is one of the greatest performances of a chamber work I have ever heard with sonic reprocessing that fully matches its artistry. Anything else I write below is just intellectual gloss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Franck quintet announced its composer's arrival in the ranks of world-class composers. Two people were much discomfitted at its premiere. His wife, who sensed in the surging passion of the first movement a transfer of his bourgeois religious emotion into something rather more earthly. The pianist, Camille Saint-Saëns, who was the reigning instrumental French Composer and whose very temperate aesthethic went well with the times, was disgusted with such a naked display of passion. No succeeding Franck work wore its heart so much on its sleeve; by the Violin Sonata (perhaps the greatest of all violin sonatas and Franck's greatest work) the passion and the classicism are fused into a noble whole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Quintetto Chigiano find the golden mean between spontaneity and line. They play with immense integration. At the very beginning, when the four strings play fortissimo and with the utmost tension, the piano enters very relaxed and beautifully. In most performances, the piano enters as from afar--some other planet--but here the piano enters as a feminine spirit but from the same family as those very agitated and \"up-tight\" strings. But later on in the first movement, it is the strings who attempt to calm the piano. There is never a gulf between them; they are really one voice. Technically, they are incredible, but it is their spirit which gets to me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI wish I knew what happened to this group. Why did they not make a great career for themselves?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviewer: Bill Rosen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PACM023.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Franck Piano Quintet\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEarly Decca LP recording, manually de-wowed and fully remastered\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eUnlike the \u003cb\u003eQuintetto Chigiano's\u003c\/b\u003e\nother early 1950's recordings for Decca, we can find no evidence of\nthis ever reappearing in any form after its initial release. It was\namong the first batch of LP records issued by the company in 1950 -\ntheir LXT series started at 2500, and this was the twentieth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003ePerhaps the\nmain reason for its absence from the later catalogue is the persistent\npitch variation throughout the original, something that closer analysis\nhas revealed to be a product of the original master recording and not of\nlater poor pressing or disc mastering. Indeed, this would explain its\nabsence - if a master disc shows errors a company can return to the\nmaster tapes and remake it. If, however, the problem is intrinsic to the\nmaster tapes then perhaps one needs to wait 56 years until the\ntechnology is in place to correct the problem!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eThe record\nexhibited a double-wow througout the recording. In other words, for\nevery rotation of the disc, the pitch twice varied up and down by\n+\/-0.15 semitones. We have yet to figure out quite how this could come\nto pass but have some possible ideas. What we do know is that the 'wow'\naffected the masters as the its up and down cycle is clearly and visibly\ninterrupted each time there is an edit made in the recording.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eManually de-wowing an LP:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eThus restoring this recording produced real problems for the restorer, Peter Harrison at \u003cem\u003edisc2disk\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eBelow\nis a graphical representation of two section - the 'before' is on the\ntop and the 'after' is below. You'll see the noise and clicks on the top\npicture as one would expect from an old LP. But look carefully at the\nhorizontal lines - the first four seconds show the end of the strings\nopening - then there's a clear change in the music at the piano solo\nentry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eIn the top\npicture the notes, particularly the harmonics about halfway up the\nscreen, look a little like tadpoles - in the bottom they've been\nstraightened out. The wiggle illustrates the 66 2\/3 rpm wow we found on\nthe original recording - over 2400 of them on the complete Quintet,\nwhich have been carefully 'de-wowed' one - or a few - at a time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140723022629im_\/http:\/\/www.pristineclassical.com\/LargeWorks\/Wow\/wow-before-and-after.jpg?width=700\" alt=\"Frequency domain visual\" width=\"580\" height=\"420\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eZooming in makes the differences more obvious:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width: 90%;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"8\" border=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140723022629im_\/http:\/\/www.pristineclassical.com\/LargeWorks\/Wow\/wiggle.jpg?width=700\" alt=\"Before\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #990000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBefore fixing and processing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 10px 1px;\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140723022629im_\/http:\/\/www.pristineclassical.com\/LargeWorks\/Wow\/straight.jpg?width=700\" alt=\"After\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #990000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter fixing and processing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eAlthough\nI've stated that this occurred regularly, in fact the precise timing of\nthe wow could vary minutely from cycle to cycle, and thus a simple fix\nfor the whole 36 minutes was not possible - each section of processing\nhad to be individually addressed and adjusted to fit the precise nature\nof the problem at that point. The finished product is quite remarkably\nstable - something the Decca engineers of the 1950's would have\nconsidered a miracle - and even today I find an astonishing achievement\non the part of Peter Harrison.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAndrew 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Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFRANCK \u003c\/b\u003ePiano Quintet in F minor\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRecorded \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDecca West Hampstead Studios, 4-5 April 1950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;\"\u003eOriginally released in 1950 as Decca LXT2520\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuration 36:30\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cspan type=\"_moz\"\u003eQuintetto Chigiano:\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSergio Lorenzi\u003c\/b\u003e,\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003epiano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRiccardo Brengola\u003c\/b\u003e, violin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMario Benvenuti\u003c\/b\u003e, violin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGiovanni Leone\u003c\/b\u003e, viola\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLino Filippini\u003c\/b\u003e, 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