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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The violinist compares two recordings he made, 20-plus years apart, of the Franck Violin Sonata. Violinist Joshua Bell: 'French Impressions,' Yesterday And Today Violinist Joshua Bell: 'French ...

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 ...