arts entertainment Performing Arts César Franck’s revolutionary organ music, in a marathon performance by Scott Dettra Divided between afternoon and evening sessions, the 12 pieces were played ...

Belgium’s greatest composer, César Franck (1822-1890), is a man with a hidden past. He was a late developer and decades of his early output are neglected in favour of his mature work. His great ...

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?

This week, host David Dubal focuses on one of classical music’s unappreciated late bloomers, César Franck.

Kent Teeters looks at Bookspan's “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” and offers commentary on pieces by César Franck and George Gershwin.

Paul Jacobs has completed his survey of the major solo organ works of César Franck, whose birthday year is passing with scattered observances.

The OPRL is set to stage CÉSAR FRANCK'S OPERA HULDA. Given in concert version in its entirety, this extremely rare work is typical of “French grand opera”. Its medieval Scandinavian plot ...

Franck, who was born on December 10, 1822, is a Belgian-French Romantic composer, pianist, organist and music teacher.

To mark the 200th anniversary of Franck's birth, Donald Macleod spends the week delving a bit deeper into this enigmatic and complex character and his music.

Who is controlling our taste in classical music? Chopin is ‘in’, Liszt is marginal, Raff is ‘out’ – but why do composers fall in and out of fashion?