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, ...

Quintet for Piano and Strings Paavali Jumppanen, Piano César Franck, Composer Danel Quartet These performances by the Quatuor Danel are deftly poised on a knife’s edge between sensuousness and rigour, ...

It takes time and perseverance to grasp the essence of Franck’s String Quartet and Piano Quintet, certainly more so than the straightforward likeability of his ever-popular Symphony in D. But it’s ...

Of all the music César Franck wrote, four works made his name: the Symphonic Variations, the Violin Sonata, the Symphony in D minor and this Piano Quintet. The quintet (1879) shares that same big, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pianist Marc-André Hamelin was wonderfully expansive and the Quartet brought beautiful stillness to Debussy; all five united for an exciting performance of Franck’s Piano Quintet There was plenty that ...

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 ...

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 ...