While the Takács work their way through the core chamber repertoire for Hyperion, the Goldner, the other great quartet on the label's books, explores its fringes, often in partnership with pianist ...
NEW YORK — Few artists suffered the Job-like misfortunes of composer-organist Louis Vierne. Born almost blind, in 1870, he badly injured his leg when he fell in a Paris street as a young man and had ...
Christopher Houlihan’s quixotic six-city, six-Louis-Vierne-organ-symphony tour reached the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on Thursday and Friday nights. It commemorates the 75th anniversary of ...
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 ...
Many great composers turn suffering into beauty in their music, but few endured more and expressed it more powerfully than French composer and organist Louis Vierne. Vierne is noted for his six ...
It was 2009. On his drive home from work one day, Princeton University organist Eric Plutz began to wonder. Though his responsibilities at his full-time job at the University kept his plate more than ...
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 ...
The Market Square Presbyterian Church Sanctuary Choir will perform two French choral masterworks May 3 at the Harrisburg church. The 40-voice choir, directed by Tyler Canonico-Dilley, will present ...