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.

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 ...

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, ...

It is always a worthy question to ask when a pairing like Beethoven's notorious "Kreutzer" sonata with Franck's frankly demonic violin sonata, not to mention the inspired inclusion of Kreisler's ...

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 ...

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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Beethoven Violin Sonata #9 Op. 47 “Kreutzer”: Adagio sostenuto - presto, Andante con variazioni, presto; Franck Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano: Allegretto ben moderato, allegro, Ben Moderato ...

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 ...

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 ...

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