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Fauré: Intégrale de l’oeuvre pour piano, Vol 3

Jean-Claude Pennetier

Solo Piano - Released October 1, 2015 | Mirare

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Fauré: Intégrale de l'œuvre pour piano, Vol. 4

Jean-Claude Pennetier

Classical - Released May 25, 2018 | Mirare

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Fauré: Intégrale de l'oeuvre pour piano, Volume 2

Jean-Claude Pennetier

Classical - Released November 22, 2011 | Mirare

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Fauré: 13 Barcarolles & Ballade Op. 19

Jean-Philippe Collard

Classical - Released January 14, 2022 | La Dolce Volta

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Not just anyone can enter the sophisticated, discreet and secretive world of Gabriel Fauré's Barcarolles. French pianist Jean-Philippe Collard has been keeping out of the spotlight for far too long, so his return to both the stage and the recording studio (with his new label La Dolce Volta) is a welcome sight. His comeback sees him return to his first musical love: the composer Fauré, whose Barcarolles cycle he had already recorded, along with his complete piano music, chamber music and a selection of melodies with Frederica von Stade.Over time, Collard’s sound has become simpler, lighter, with a freshness and spontaneity that only comes with musical maturity. The story behind this new recording is a funny one: one day whilst driving his car, Jean-Philippe Collard just so happened to be listening to the radio when a pianist performing the Première Barcarolle started playing. He didn’t care much for the interpretation and hated the performers constant changes in tempo... so you can imagine his dismay when the radio host announced that it was, in fact, Collard’s own recording from 1970... that was the moment he knew he had to work on this cycle again and propose a new and improved version.This second version was recorded in 2020 in the beautiful Arsenal Concert Hall, which is known for its remarkable acoustics. Exactly fifty years after his first recording, Jean-Philippe Collard’s vision for the solo piano version of the Barcarolles and Ballad has now been perfected. It’s been stripped back to basics and exudes the kind of naturalness that, paradoxically, could only ever have been attained through thorough analysis of the written music, its constant modulations and skilful superimposition of melody. Jean-Phillipe Collard has evidently gone through it all with a fine-toothed comb and, consequently, he’s given the world a chance to listen to the very best of what he has to offer. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Chopin: 26 Préludes - Scriabine: Sonate Op. 19 No. 2

Beatrice Rana

Classical - Released September 2, 2012 | ATMA Classique

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Gabriel Fauré : Piano Works

Michel Dalberto

Classical - Released April 14, 2017 | Aparté

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Disciple of Vlado Perlemuter and Jean Hubeau, Michel Dalberto has stood out as a master and ardent defender of French music in the course of a forty-year career. His signature for the Aparté label of a series of recordings devoted to Debussy, Fauré, Ravel, and Franck marks his awaited return to discs. Each episode will be recorded live and accompanied by a video. This second release, recorded on a Bechstein piano at the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique-Paris on 7 January 2017, honours Gabriel Fauré.
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Chopin : De l’enfance à la plénitude

Anne Queffélec

Classical - Released January 21, 2010 | Mirare

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Passions de l'âme et du cœur

Ricercar Consort

Classical - Released January 12, 2015 | Mirare

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...Les sons et les parfums - Debussy meets Chopin

Javier Perianes

Classical - Released November 4, 2013 | harmonia mundi

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Field : Nocturnes

Florent Albrecht

Solo Piano - Released September 17, 2021 | HORTUS

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“Unprecedented” is the right word to sum up this album entirely devoted to John Field's Nocturnes. Unprecedented because it is the first recording by Florent Albrecht, an extra-terrestrial of the pianoforte, who trained late in life after a first career in the luxury goods industry. After graduating from the Conservatoire of Geneva in 2018 and laureate of the Royaumont Foundation the same year, the French pianist has already performed at the Paris Opera and the Juilliard School, among others. An unprecedented album, as it features the world premiere of Nocturne in B flat major, posthumous Op.142, a score exhumed from the shelves of the St Petersburg library by Florent Albrecht. For the occasion, Qobuz presents this original and enchanting album exclusively for five weeks.The nocturne, a form made popular by Chopin, emerged at a time in the history of music when technical improvements in keyboard instruments enabled them to rival the expressiveness of the human voice. We do not know if it is John Field's writing talent or Florent Albrecht's fluid and airy playing—it is probably a subtle mixture of the two—but we come away from listening being convinced that the piano is the sole instrument capable of expressing the emotions of the romantic soul. The musician opts for a phrasing that is both clear and supple, perfectly suited to his instrument (a Carlo Meglio from 1826), whose rounded and slightly trembling timbre, sometimes close to a cimbalom, acts like a soothing balm for the soul. A truly calming interlude. © Pierre Lamy/Qobuz
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Fauré: Nocturnes pour Piano, Theme et Variations Op. 73 by Eric Heidsieck

Eric Heidsieck

Classical - Released February 9, 2023 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording

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Chopin : 11 Polonaises

Samson François

Classical - Released September 8, 2008 | Warner Classics

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Chopin: Journal musical de Chopin

Abdel Rahman El Bacha

Classical - Released January 12, 2010 | Mirare

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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 21, 12 & 32

Nicholas Angelich

Classical - Released May 10, 2005 | Mirare

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Fauré: Intégrale de l'œuvre pour piano, Vol. 1 (Ballade, Mazurka op.62, Quatre Valses-Caprices, Préludes Op.103

Jean-Claude Pennetier

Classical - Released May 12, 2009 | Mirare

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Though Fauré was assuredly his own man as a composer, in these performances of his piano music by Jean-Claude Pennetier, he is also surely the rightful heir of Chopin. The formal matter here is clearly Chopin's -- a ballade, a mazurka, four waltzes, and nine preludes -- and the stylistic manner is Chopin's as well -- the filigree and melody in the right hand and the left hand divided between counter-melody, chordal accompaniment and bass. This is meant as no slight to either Fauré or Pennetier. This is luscious music with toothsome melodies, succulent sonorities, and mouthwatering forms, and if these can be faulted for being too beautiful, it's a fault they should bear proudly. The performances are likewise exquisite. Pennetier has a fluent technique, a pearly tone, and an elegant way of phrasing a melody and shaping a form. But more than that, Pennetier has a real sympathy for Fauré's music and his interpretations are honest and heartfelt. Though the classic performances of these works are certainly worthy of admiration and love, Pennetier's are no less admirable and loveable and any listener interested in the composer or the period is urged to try this disc. Mirare's digital sound is clear, deep, and immediate. © TiVo
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Méditation cithare & piano

Philippe Davenet

Ambient - Released March 3, 2015 | Bayard Musique

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Le chant du violoncelle

Edouardo Torbianelli

Classical - Released November 20, 2020 | Paraty

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Chopin and Franchomme’s collaboration and sincere friendship rested on a double understanding : they were linked both by a communion of feeling, so precious to the Polish exile in the Paris mondain of the time, and an artistic symbiosis that fed both on an affinity in the mastery of their instrument, and on the sharing of such basic musical values as authenticity, simplicity, elegance, and nobility of expression. Edoardo Torbianelli and Fernando Caida-Greco first played together in 2000 as a trio formation, with the violinist Amandine Beyer, within the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Their collaboration led to a musical dialogue based on extensive research, with a particular focus on the Romantic repertoire, revisited in the light of the aesthetic and technical knowledge acquired over 20 years of research. © Paraty
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Fauré: Nocturnes & Barcarolles

Marc-André Hamelin

Classical - Released September 1, 2023 | Hyperion

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The virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin isn't the first pianist one would think of when it comes to Fauré's music, but he has recorded all kinds of things, even ragtime, and as it happens, he does quite well with the dense miniatures heard on this album. Fauré's Nocturnes are at some level connected to Chopin's but are quite different, with murky chromaticism, especially in the later ones, setting the night atmosphere. Fauré is thought of as a musical conservative, but one would hardly know it from the pieces here that stubbornly refuse to settle on a tonal center. The counterpoint is complex, and a successful performance is one that untangles it. There isn't big, pianistic virtuosity here, but Hamelin's ability to balance Fauré's registers is virtuosic in its own way. The Barcarolles, a genre not much pursued by other composers but for Fauré seeming to allow rays of Venetian sunshine into his rather closed-in French world, are lighter but basically cut from the same cloth. Things lighten up with the final Dolly Suite, Op. 56, where Hamelin performs with his wife, Cathy Fuller. (For those wondering, neither Mi-a-ou nor the Kitty-valse has anything to do with cats.) Although Hyperion's church sound is not idiomatic, it does not damage the remarkable clarity in what is a significant entry in the Fauré discography, one that landed on classical best-seller lists in the late summer of 2023.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Fauré: Complete Music for Solo Piano

Lucas Debargue

Classical - Released March 22, 2024 | Sony Classical

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Pianist, thinker, and author Lucas Debargue explains having wanted to inflect “an experimental accent” onto this album which compiles the complete solo piano works of Gabriel Fauré. Indeed, his intentions encompass both the music itself as well as its highly polished sound production, featuring the use of the now infamous Opus 102 piano, conceived and fabricated by French manufacturer Stephen Paulello. This innovative instrument features 102 keys instead of the typical 88, along with highly reactive mechanics which give it an exceptional sound identity and incomparable variability. Lucas Debargue puts his fluid and inspired technique at the service of music that he first approached quite late, at the end of his music education, upon hearing another student play the “Barcarolle N° 1.” For him, this was a sort of paradigm shift, the discovery of a world that he previously wasn’t aware of. The first major confinement of the COVID 19 crisis ended up being beneficial for him, as it allowed him to return to the long practice sessions that the explosive international success of his career prevented him from enjoying. Casting aside the idea of grouping the tracks together by title, as Fauré himself had given them titles merely for his editors’ convenience, Lucas Debargue follows the thread of this pure music by carefully adhering to the opus numbers. This gives listeners a measure of the composer’s evolution as he slowly distanced himself from his mentors in order to find his own harmonic richness, which also happens to resonate with Lucas Debargue’s own artistic concerns as a composer evolving within a tonal perspective. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Paysage

Véronique Gens

Classical - Released March 15, 2024 | Alpha Classics

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