Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Paul Jacobs has completed his survey of the major solo organ works of César Franck, whose birthday year is passing with scattered ...

When the first performance of Cesar Franck’s Symphony in D Minor was given in Paris in 1889, critics were almost unanimously indignant. Sniffed one of them: “Why play this symphony here? Who is this M ...

Part of Reflections From the Keyboard. Pianist, teacher and author David Dubal hosts a weekly exploration of classical music's piano greats.

It's never too late to try something new. César Franck was in his mid-sixties when he composed his first and only symphony. After a lifetime devoted largely to organ music and teaching, he took on a ...

Cesar Franck was a late bloomer. He wasted a lot of his early career on being a ladies' man and a bit of a drifter. But a few of his later works have stuck in the repertoire, including the Symphonic ...

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César Franck’s three-movement Quintet divided its earliest audiences and continues to draw a range of responses from performers. Richard Whitehouse seeks the recordings that most fully capture its ...

Cesar FranckSoprano Jessye Norman is only the fourth opera singer to win a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy's. Her predecessors were Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price and Enrico Caruso. Jessye ...

September 15, 2006 • Carol Jantsch, 21, soon will be the Philadelphia Orchestra's youngest member, and the first woman to be a principal tuba player in a top U.S. orchestra. December 25, 2004 • The ...