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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...