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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.

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, ...

When Joshua Bell was 21, he recorded an iconic piece of chamber music for piano and violin — the Sonata in A major by Cesar Franck. Today, Bell is 44 and he's recorded it again. It's on his new album, ...

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 ...

On this week’s episode, we’re celebrating the birthday of virtuoso violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe, who was born 158 years ago on July 16th, with music by Ernest Chausson, Gabriel Fauré, César ...

Chinese violinist Gao Can made his debut at the Berliner Philharmonie on May 3, playing pieces that included the Violin Sonata in A Major by Cesar Franck; Violin Sonata No 7 in C minor by Beethoven; 6 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...