Organist Bram Beekman has already gained fame thanks to an exemplary cycle with Bach's organ works on fourteen historical Baroque organs in the Netherlands (a total of nine double CDs). Beekman's latest achievement concerns the organ works by César Franck on three CDs (only available complete), played on the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Cathedral in Perpignan. So-called integral
… recordings of Franck's organ works are often limited to the "Six pièces", the "Trois pièces" and the "Trois chorals". However, the edition discussed here also contains the concise "Tois antiennes", the "Andantino", the "Pièce en La major" and an extra variant (third version) of the "Fantaisie en ut major". (HJ) _more
