Your top five French Romantic pieces post Berlioz

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Asking because I have not listened to much between Berlioz and Debussy & looking for some recommendations

[Christo]

For me (an outsider in this repertoire ) something like:

George Bizet, l'Arlésienne
Camille Saint-Saëns, Third Symphony
Camille Saint-Saëns, Piano concerto no. 5 ('Egyptian')
Gabriel Fauré, Requiem
Charles-Marie Widor, Sinfonia Sacra

[eyeresist]

Saint Saens Symphony 3 (+ Carnival of the Animals, piano concertos, symphonic poems!)
Chausson Symphony
Franck Symphony
Faure Pelleas & Melisande
Lalo Piano concerto

[snyprrr]

Was that Top 5 Dead Metal Auteurs?

[Brian]

Saint-Saens Piano Concertos 2, 3, 5
Franck Symphony, Le chasseur maudit (listen to Munch in that one!)
Widor Organ Symphony No 5
Faure piano quintet no 1

[DieNacht]

Some nice works are:

Franck:"Prelude, Choral & Fugue" for piano
Chausson:"Symphony"
Dukas:"La Peri" & "L´Apprenti Sorcier" (Almeida recording on Supraphon !!!)
Faure: Piano Quartets 1+2; Requiem
Gounod: Mass  St. Cecilia
Magnard: 4th Symphony (Plasson recording)

+ S-Saens in general.

[Drasko]

Franck - Prelude, choral et fugue
Franck - Violin Sonata
Faure - Nocturnes 1-13
Faure - String Quartet
Faure - Piano Trio

[Luke]

Franck - Prelude, choral et fugue
Franck - Violin Sonata
Faure - Nocturnes 1-13
Faure - String Quartet
Faure - Piano Trio

This is scarily close to what I would have written.  The Nocturnes are a particularly fine pick...

[The Six]

Charles Valentin Alkan, a great who is largely unknown and unplayed. He wrote both a symphony and a concerto for solo piano. 

[val]

DUPARC:   Melodies          (in special the two on poems of Baudelaire and Phidylé)

CHAUSSON:  Concerto for piano, violin & string Quartet

CESAR FRANCK:     Sonata for violin & piano

FAURÉ:     Piano Trio

SAINT SAENS:    Symphony n. 3

[springrite]

Chausson Symphony
Alkan Grande Sonate
Franck Symphony
Faure Piano Music (Take your pick from the Nocturnes and Bacarrolles)
Franck Violin Sonata

[coffee]

Faure: Piano Quintets, Cello Sonatas, Piano Quartets, Violin Sonatas
Frank: Symphony, Violin Sonata, Cello Sonata
Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto #3, Cello Concerto #1
Dukas: Piano Sonata

If I'm really forced to pick a top 5 -
Faure: Piano Quintet #1, #2
Faure: Cello Sonatas #1, #2
Franck: Cello Sonata

[Cato]

Asking because I have not listened to much between Berlioz and Debussy & looking for some recommendations

Sorry!  I cannot confine myself to 5!  Just the kind of guy I am!   

Louis Vierne: Complete Organ Symphonies I-VI and Symphony for Orchestra.

Cesar Franck: Le Chasseur Maudit (The Wild Huntsman)

Alexandre Guilmant: Complete Organ Sonatas, Symphonies I and II for Organ and Orchestra and Solemn Mass #3

And I will join others in recommending everything by Ernst Chausson.

If you want late 19th Century/20th Century, do not forget (besides the obvious) the works of Francis Poulenc.

[Brian]

Louis Vierne: Complete Organ Symphonies I-VI and Symphony for Orchestra.

Cesar Franck: Le Chasseur Maudit (The Wild Huntsman)

I love Le chasseur maudit! The old Munch recording leaves scorch marks in the carpet.

And I remember fondly, too, your deployment of Vierne's symphony in a "name that tune" contest, last year...

[Cato]

I love Le chasseur maudit! The old Munch recording leaves scorch marks in the carpet.

And I remember fondly, too, your deployment of Vierne's symphony in a "name that tune" contest, last year...

YES!!!  That recording (RCA with Boston) had a completely atomic performance of the Chausson Symphony too!

Unfortunately, that pairing is not available on CD (at least on Amazon), but RCA does offer this:

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