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A Fauré Recital, Volume 1
GABRIEL FAURÉ
1.
Pavane, Op.50 (1887)
5:35
in F sharp minor • in fis-Moll • en fa dièse mineur
for Chorus and Orchestra
Dédiée à Madame la Vicomtesse Greffulhe née Caraman-Chimay
Transcribed for solo piano by Louis Lortie
Andante molto moderato
2.
Barcarolle No.5, Op.66 (1894)
5:13
in F sharp minor • in fis-Moll • en fa dièse mineur
À Mme la Baronne V. d'Indy
Allegretto moderato - Tranquillamente
3.
Nocturne No.4, Op.36 (1884)
5:55
in E flat major • in Es-Dur • en mi bémol majeur
À Mme la comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau
Andante molto moderato
4.
Barcarolle No.6, Op.70 (?1895)
3:08
in E flat major • in Es-Dur • en mi bémol majeur
Allegretto vivo
5.
Après un rêve, Op.7 No.1 (1877)
3:08
in C minor • in c-Moll • en ut mineur
from Trois Mélodies
À Madame Marguerite Baugnies
Arranged 1939 for solo piano by Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
Andantino
Suite from 'Pelléas et Mélisande', Op.80 (1898)
17.26
Incidental music to the play by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862--1949)
À Mme la Princesse Edmond de Polignac
Movements 1, 2 and 4 as published 1898 by the composer
Movement 3 as arranged 1921 by Alfred Cortot (1877-1962)
6.
Prélude. Quasi Adagio
5:49
7.
Sicilienne. Andantino quasi Allegretto
3:53
8.
Fileuse. Andantino quasi Allegretto
2:54
9.
Molto adagio 'La Mort de Mélisande'
4:40
10.
Barcarolle No.7, Op.90 (1905)
2:56
in D minor • in d-Moll • en ré mineur
À Mme Isidore Philipp
Allegretto moderato
11.
Nocturne No.6, Op.63 (1894)
8:08
in D flat major • in Des-Dur • en ré bémol majeur
À M. Eugène d'Eichthal
Adagio - Allegretto molto moderato - Allegro moderato - Più moderato - Allegro - Più moderato - Tempo I
Nine Préludes, Op.103 (1909-10)
22.39
À Mlle Elisabeth de Lallemand
12.
1
Andante molto moderato
3:24
in D flat major • in Des-Dur • en ré bémol majeur
13.
2
Allegro
2:01
in C sharp minor • in cis-Moll • en ut dièse mineur
14.
3
Andante
3:51
in G minor • in g-Moll • en sol mineur
15.
4
Allegretto moderato
1:47
in F major • in F-Dur • en fa majeur
16.
5
Allegro
2:12
in D minor • in d-Moll • en ré mineur
17.
6
Andante
2:26
in E flat minor • in es-Moll • en mi bémol mineur
18.
7
Andante moderato
2:34
in A major • in A-Dur • en la majeur
19.
8
Allegro
1:06
in C minor • in c-Moll • en ut mineur
20.
9
Adagio
3:15
in E minor • in e-Moll • en mi mineur
Total time: 73:55
Solo:Louis Lortie piano
About
This is the first volume in Louis Lortie’s new series devoted to the music of Gabriel Fauré.
As he states in the booklet notes, ‘this album purposely travels through Fauré's various creative periods, from easily appealing early pieces such as the Pavane and the mélodie “Après un rêve” through to the late and unjustly neglected Préludes, a masterpiece of condensed harmonic and melodic audacity.’
Released after four volumes in an ongoing Chopin series – ‘an exceptionally high order of playing’ (BBC Music) – this album, besides the masterful late Op. 103 Préludes, unsurprisingly features in Lortie’s words ‘the romantic, post-Chopinesque genres of the Nocturnes and Barcarolles along with path-breaking small forms of neoclassical aesthetics such as the suite from Pelléas et Mélisande, here in a solo piano version highlighting the ambiguity of a canvas of pianistic and orchestral colourings that would be a major influence on Fauré’s successors’.
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“... this Lortie issue has to be a strong recommendation, whether you are a seasoned collector of Fauré’s piano music, or looking for an introduction to its world. There is discernment as well as directness in this thoroughly idiomatic playing, quite free of cliché...”
Roy Westbrook - MusicWeb-International.com - 12 September 2017
Album **** (Recommended) Sound 3/5
Alain Lomp – Diapason magazine (France) – June 2017
"... I recommend this disc highly, and I eagerly await the next volume of Lortie's Fauré cycle."
Myron Silberstein - Fanfare - March/April 2017
“This wonderful Fauré recital is labelled Volume 1, so I expect several more discs to com ... The 20 tracks are a well thought and well ordered group that has been a pleasure to listen to many times. Lortie, a renowned French Canadian pianist, has the maturity, musical sensibilities, and technique to begin a series in such a promising manner... He [Lorte] plays a beautifully prepared Fazioli piano, with exemplary sound captured by Chandos and excellent booklet essays.”
James Harrington – American Record Guide – March/April 2017
**** (Excellent Album) **** (Exceptional Sound)
Jacques Bonnaure – Classica magazine (France) – February 2017
“... Lortie’s deeply personal yet naturally expressive piano playing, whets the appetite for further releases in the series.”
Patrick Rucker - Gramophone magazine - November 2016
Performance ***** Recording *****
“... There’s no mistaking Lortie’s affection for the music, nor his sensitivity to its delicate half-lights and sensuous shadows. His technical control is unflinching, whether in the starlit glimmers in Nocturne No 6 or the virtual ambidexterity required for the Barcarolle No 5. Everything is finessed without succumbing to preciousness...”
Jessica Duchen - BBC Music magazine - December 2016
“...Fauré’s world is one of intimacy and subtlety, of the veiled and the unspoken, and one Louis Lortie’s sensibilities are completely attuned to.” *****
Peter Reed – ClassicalSource.com – 12 October 2016
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