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 ...

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.