When the first performance of Cesar Franck’s Symphony in D Minor was given in Paris in 1889, critics were almost unanimously indignant. Sniffed one of them: “Why play this symphony here? Who is this M ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by César Franck’s only symphony was a pillar of the repertory for decades. But it’s now a rarity. By David Allen Whatever Leopold Stokowski’s thirst for ...
(Maazel, HeliodorBerlin Radio Symphony; Heliodor HS-25092). Lorin Maazel’s old records are better than his new, as this reissue attests. Franck’s old war-horse seems positively glossy.
The Kansas City Symphony shines in performances of music by César Franck, Zoltán Koldály and Jean Sibelius. We'll hear Franck's Symphony in D minor, Koldály's "Concerto for Orchestra," and the ...
Guest Conductor Mario Alejandro Torres will lead the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra's lyrical and lovely winter program this February. César Franck wrote a hybrid symphony-symphonic poem when he penned ...
Jacques Houtmann and the Richmond Symphony performed a useful service to Western civilization Saturday night: They blew the cobwebs off César Franck’s Symphony in D minor. The Franck symphony is one ...