In 1970, in a review of a concert by the Jeunesses Musicales du Luxembourg, I noted your natural, direct playing and, above all, your balanced, velvety sound, and concluded: « His highly expressive playing, free of all superfluous affectation, was a fine tribute to Beethoven ». These qualities still touch me in your new recording. But what … Lire la suite de Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden: « It’s the spiritual dimension, the mystical side that gives Franck’s music its strength »