"Most of the discs issued to mark César Franck's bicentenary last year have been reissues, but the selection of orchestral works on Alpha from the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Alain Altinoglu makes a belated exception. As well as Franck's Symphony in D Minor, heard much less often nowadays than it once was, and the best known of the symphonic poems, Le Chasseur Maudit, Altinoglu also includes the orchestral interlude that Franck originally intended to separate the two parts of his choral "poème-symphonie" Rédemption. All the performances are sober, well-paced and never overblown, with textures as transparent as the scoring allows them to be".