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.

Franck's Violin Sonata - which recording is best? Caroline Gill Tuesday, December 8, 2015 César Franck’s Violin Sonata is a complex piece, and Caroline Gill finds that the numerous recordings fall ...

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 ...

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 ...

My lifelong Cesar Franck-ophobia, with that interminable leviathan of a symphony one of the most heavy-footed examples of the species, is pretty unshakeable. There is a single exception for me in the ...

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 ...

Franck's Violin Sonata - which recording is best? Caroline Gill Tuesday, December 8, 2015 César Franck’s Violin Sonata is a complex piece, and Caroline Gill finds that the numerous recordings fall ...