The 64-year-old César Franck wrote his Violin Sonata in A in 1886, and 22-year-old Richard Strauss his Violin Sonata in E flat a year later. The predominantly autumnal Franck is everywhere, purloined ...

In concert at this summer's Music Academy of the West, in Sanata Barbara, California, violinist Kathleen Winkler and pianist Anne Epperson play the Violin Sonata in A by Cesar Franck.

In César Franck's Sonata Isabelle Faust plays her 1710 Stradivarius with unusual restraint. And Alexander Melnikov's 1880s érard piano has a rounded tone that seems to allow him to play out without ...

The booklet for this CD maintains that César Franck’s Piano Quintet is “organised cynically”. This is presumably a misprint for “cyclically”, since there is nothing remotely cynical about this bold, ...

HERE is a wonderful disc, capturing two great musical minds – violinist Augustin Dumay and pianist Louis Lortie – at the height of their powers and in absolute unity. In Cesar Franck's Violin Sonata ...

From a concert at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, we hear the Sonata in A by Cesar Franck — originally for violin and piano — played by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Katherine Stott. The pair ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...

On this week’s episode, we’re celebrating the birthday of virtuoso violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe, who was born 158 years ago on July 16th, with music by Ernest Chausson, Gabriel Fauré, César ...

Has there ever existed a milder, more humble man who was also a great composer than César Franck? His ambitions were simple: to serve music and God with equal ­reverence. Name a famous Belgian! Well, ...

Chinese violinist Gao Can made his debut at the Berliner Philharmonie on May 3, playing pieces that included the Violin Sonata in A Major by Cesar Franck; Violin Sonata No 7 in C minor by Beethoven; 6 ...