César Franck's two most substantial chamber works make a meaty, 79-minute disc, and listening to the ­Piano Quintet straight after the D major String Quartet could easily become a recipe for musical ...

This is a wonderfully played pairing of perhaps the two greatest of all French string quartets. Both are late scores - Franck's huge work was completed in 1889, the year before the composer's death, ...

THOUGH they are recorded in chronological order, there's a case for listening to Fauré's quartet first, if you are intent on a string quartet session. The two French composers, often seen as opposites ...

Quintet for Piano and Strings Takács Qt Marc-André Hamelin, Piano César Franck, Composer When the seasoned artistry of the Takács Quartet blends with the thoughtful brilliance of Marc-André Hamelin, a ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Some composers are consigned to oblivion simply because their music is less worthy, overshadowed by more inspired contemporaries. Others are unjustly neglected, in some cases ...

This is a notably well recorded disc; we’re placed, it seems, right in the middle of the music-making, and from the opening bars of the Franck we feel the intensity of the Dante’s commitment. You may ...

In the Parisii Quartet, no single player dominates. And they all do. It's that paradox that makes this ensemble the epitome of what a string quartet should be. Few can claim the level of ...

The Takács Quartet is best known for its gritty but stylish approach to the music of German and Eastern European composers — Bartók, Beethoven, Haydn, and so forth. So there’s a certain frisson in ...

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French chamber music has long been a rich seam that record labels like to mine, and in recent years the familiar names of Fauré, Ravel, Debussy and César Franck have found themselves rubbing shoulders ...

CCM String-Quartet-in-Residence: American Dream (02/21/23-02/21/23) ...

If you're fond of César Franck's piano quintet and wondered if anyone else ever wrote another work in the same spirit, you'll be delighted to discover the 1917 quintet by Franck's pupil, Gabriel ...