Michel Dalberto / Novus Quartet CÉSAR FRANCK Piano Works - Quintet

Vlado Perlemuter and Jean Hubeau's pupil, Michel Dalberto has established himself during a forty-year career as a master. And as an ardent defender of French music he launched on Aparté record label a serie dedicated to Debussy, Fauré, Franck and Ravel. "These recording of works of the four major French composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, I wish to prove myself worthy of the teachers who used to provide a specific idea of French music made of severity and sensuality, a mixture of rigour and freedom." After a first opus devoted to Debussy (and rewarded with a Diapason d'Or), and a second to Fauré (also rewarded with a Diapason d'Or), Michel Dalberto chose the Salle Philharmonique in Liège to record the third part of this collection – that is to say in César Franck's home town. To complete this artistic experience, a video recording was also made as a living testimony of the French piano tradition.