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 ...

Cesar Franck's Piano Quintet is a gorgeous piece of chamber music. It's among the titans of the repertoire, alongside the Piano Quintet by Johannes Brahms, which happens to be in the same key -- f ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Chinese pianist Haochen Zhang made it clear his concert with the Dover Quartet had concluded when he closed the lid of the Steinway grand piano in the Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall following a ...

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 ...

The booklet for this CD maintains that César Franck’s Piano Quintet is “organised cynically”. This is presumably a misprint for “cyclically”, since there is nothing remotely cynical about this bold, ...

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 ...

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, ...