Franck, C - Trois pièces pour grand orgue, M. 35-37

Penin is a Franckian to the manner born; he lives, breathes, and realizes the composer’s music and intentions with the utmost conviction. He is recorded with great presence and proper perspective,... — Fanfare, Sep/Oct 2023 More…

A must-have for Franck-ophiles, given the inclusion of so much high-quality but largely obscure material. And few will be disappointed with these strong and expansive performances of the major... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019 More…

Sakari lays out the thematic material of Franck’s ‘Fantaisie’ with a sense of both the music’s pensive quality and its sweep. He manages to make this first of the composer’s Trois Pièces, written... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Roß is note-perfect and the sound of the Goll is thrillingly spacious. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2012 More…

As for the performances, the tempos are mainstream choices, perhaps just a hair on the brisker side, which in my book is all to the good. Most importantly, Haskell Thomson is a performer of... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…