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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Paul Jacobs has completed his survey of the major solo organ works of César Franck, whose birthday year is passing with scattered ...

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 ...

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Part of Reflections From the Keyboard. Pianist, teacher and author David Dubal hosts a weekly exploration of classical music's piano greats.

Rare's the pianist who'd play two recitals totaling more than two hours of music, all from memory, in a single day. And a pianist wouldn't have to play lots of notes with feet as well as fingers, plus ...

Cesar FranckSoprano Jessye Norman is only the fourth opera singer to win a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy's. Her predecessors were Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price and Enrico Caruso. Jessye ...

César Franck’s three-movement Quintet divided its earliest audiences and continues to draw a range of responses from performers. Richard Whitehouse seeks the recordings that most fully capture its ...

Cesar Franck was a late bloomer. He wasted a lot of his early career on being a ladies' man and a bit of a drifter. But a few of his later works have stuck in the repertoire, including the Symphonic ...