How's this for a classical music lineup on a summer night: Antonin Dvorak's "Legends" was published in 1881; Cesar Franck's "Symphonic Variations" was composed four years later, in 1885; George Bizet ...

It's not a symphony, and it's not a concerto either. It's more of a concert piece for piano and orchestra. We're in Atlanta, Georgia, to hear the Atlanta Symphony play the "Symphonic Variations," by ...

The New York Philharmonic This Week, hosted by Emmy Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin, includes recent performances of the orchestra and interviews with musicians, guest artists and conductors.

Cesar Franck was a late bloomer. He wasted a lot of his early career on being a ladies' man and a bit of a drifter. But a few of his later works have stuck in the repertoire, including the Symphonic ...

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 ...