#5 Schoenberg & Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande
My new reference for both works in their composers' anniversary years #Schoenberg150 #Fauré100. Frankfurt RSO & Järvi give us the agony and the ecstasy, the drama and the detail. Why were these magnificent recordings (2012 & 2014) not released before?
🎼 ‘His music has joy and energy. It is luminous’: @StevenIsserlis on the genius of Gabriel Fauré ❤️
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Fauré: Complete Works For Cello & Piano
Robin Michael, Daniel Tong
Period instruments give Gabriel extra lightness and sparkle, but it's the sensitivity of the performers that makes this such a fine #Fauré100 issue.
🎼 These three Romantic-style romances are simple and exquisite short piano pieces, "already full of the penetrating perfume that emanates from [the] definitive works" according to Alfred Cortot. #Fauré100
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Photograph of a young and dashing Gabriel Fauré
In the 1870s, Gabriel Fauré often had to change apartments due to financial difficulties. He lived in a "bohemian" atmosphere, which transformed his character, according to historian Jean-Michel Nectoux. The silent teenager became a laughing, seductive young man. #Fauré100
Black and white photo of Charles Marie Widor.
Upon his return to Paris in October 1871, Gabriel Fauré was designated as the choirmaster at Église Saint-Sulpice, working alongside the composer and organist Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937). #Fauré100 #Fauré2024
He wasn't unemployed for long, since he quickly found, with Saint-Saëns's help, a position as the assistant organist at Notre-Dame de Clignancourt church in North Paris.
Here is a mélodie, Seule (op. 3, N°1), on a poem by Théophile Gautier. #Fauré100
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