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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Young concert artists know it takes self-discipline to excel. Violinist Eunice Lee, who opened Christopher Newport College’s Ramseur Concert series Saturday night, took a no-nonsense approach to her ...

Pleasures were abundant at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival on Monday night at Lakeside School, but nothing quite compared in depth with Cesar Franck's A Major Sonata. The work was written for ...

The July 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features a composer whose lasting works were created late in life, César Franck, and another ...

At first glance, the concert that violinist Daniel Hope presented Thursday night in St. Paul (repeated Friday morning) looked to be a tribute to the music of “La Belle Epoque,” the era between 1875 ...