The Kansas City Symphony shines in performances of music by César Franck, Zoltán Koldály and Jean Sibelius. We'll hear Franck's Symphony in D minor, Koldály's "Concerto for Orchestra," and the ...

Belgian-born French composer César Franck wrote his most well-known music starting in about his late 50s including his only symphony, in d-minor, at about age 66. Premiered in 1889 the year before he ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by César Franck’s only symphony was a pillar of the repertory for decades. But it’s now a rarity. By David Allen Whatever Leopold Stokowski’s thirst for ...

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 ...

Symphony Hall is a one-hour program airing each weeknight that features a full-length major symphonic work. Performances are drawn from major symphony orchestras from around the globe. To find out ...

(Maazel, HeliodorBerlin Radio Symphony; Heliodor HS-25092). Lorin Maazel’s old records are better than his new, as this reissue attests. Franck’s old war-horse seems positively glossy.

You bemoan the lack of decent modern recordings of César Franck’s orchestral music, and then these two discs appear in succession. Rather than choose between them, I’ll to cover both. A few seconds’ ...