It is one of the great ironies of musical history that the legacy of longtime Sainte Clotilde Church organist Cesar Franck rests principally on a handful of secular instrumental and orchestral works ...

Usually a disc of César Franck’s piano music – especially one that includes the Prelude, Chorale and Fugue – would have me reaching for the tissues. As soon as those cri de coeur chords chime in early ...

Some music on the dark and dramatic side opens the Halloween edition of Performance Today. We hear the Prelude from Cesar Franck's Prelude, Chorale and Fugue, played by pianist Murray Perahia.

Lionized by organists and audiences during his own time and through to our own, César Franck and his music are being vigorously commemorated this year, the bicentenary of his birth. As part of the ...