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.

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, ...

Perlman and Argerich, both big musical personalities, strike sparks off each other in these vividly characterised readings of Beethoven's Kreutzer and the Franck Sonata, recorded live in July 1998.

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 ...

Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien have established a firm reputation as one of classical music's most exciting pairings. The Franck sonata—one of the best-loved works in the entire Romantic ...

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Instead of sounding its usual, barnstorming self, Franck’s much-played Sonata for Violin and Piano emerges here elegant, clear and expressive. Isabelle Faust has chosen to record the work using gut ...