Rare's the pianist who'd play two recitals totaling more than two hours of music, all from memory, in a single day. And a pianist wouldn't have to play lots of notes with feet as well as fingers, plus ...

Prélude, fugue et variation César Franck, Composer Christoph Maria Moosmann, Organ Final Christoph Maria Moosmann, Organ César Franck, Composer Prière Christoph Maria Moosmann, Organ César Franck, ...

When most recorded versions of Franck’s organ music cover two discs, we might question why Ben van Oosten takes four. The answer is not just that his is a most expansive approach, possibly occasioned ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Paul Jacobs has completed his survey of the major solo organ works of César Franck, whose birthday year is passing with scattered ...

At times in the dark opening of the first movement one hears echoes of Reubke’s Sonata on the 94th Psalm, while the most obvious influence over this music seems to be Liszt and his organ-writing, with ...

However, there is another corpus of organ music comprising some 40 pieces, most of which were published posthumously under the editorship of Franck’s son, Georges, in 1905. These were designed as ...