Prelude, Choral, and Fugue played by Kathleen Long (piano)
Towards the end of his life Cesar Franck composed several 'large-scale piano works. One of the finest was the ' Prelude, Choral, and Fugue ', which was first performed in 1885. Vincent d'Indy says that ' Franck started with the intention of simply writing a prelude and fugue in the style of Bach, but he soon took up the idea of linking these two movements together by a Choral, the melodic spirit of which should brood over the whole work ' a