Don wrote:

>I'd like some recommendations for the following Franck works: organ
>pieces, violin sonata, string quartet, piano quintet, symphonic variations,
>and symphony in d.

Organ pieces: try Alain: the only problem is you can hear the
mechanism--that and it's out of print; maybe Langlais?

Violin sonata--I like Chung, too.  Maybe Heifetz, if I recall it correctly.

String Quartet: Slim pickings, or should I say, not many choices, and
I don't know most of them.  I have a complete Franck Chamber music set
on Dynamic LPs (Italian).  I don't remember much about it since I haven't
played it in a while.  Berkshire used to have it on LP in two volumes if
you're interested in looking into it.  The Prague performances is okay,
but there's probably something better.

Quintet--I've always liked the Curzon with, I think the Vienna Philharmonic
Quartet. Again, probably hard to get. Sorry.

The Symphony is easy: Monteux/Chicago is a classic.

Roger Hecht