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The appeal of Gabriel Fauré's music is difficult to capture in a program devoted exclusively to the composer, but pianist Louis Lortie has pulled it off here. The trick is to present an intimate program that would have held together in the small venues for which Fauré intended his music. Lortie writes that "this album purposely travels through Fauré's various creative periods," and that's part of it: Fauré and his contemporaries would not have discarded his earlier music in recital. Consider the Pavane in F sharp minor, Op. 50, so often presented as a kind of glassed-in delicacy. Here it's something else entirely: a moment of stasis from which the subsequent pieces unfold as if in a dance. Central to the program are the three Barcarolles, Nos. 5, 6, and 7, again not put together, but placed in contrast to the works that surround them, each with a different treatment of the basic gondolier inspiration. Beyond the intelligently structured program is Lortie's wonderfully restrained playing in the individual pieces: the temperature never rises above warm, but every single thing is lively. Sample anywhere, but you could start with the rather rare original piano versions of the incidental music to Pelléas et Mélisande or with the subtle, chromatic Nine Preludes, Op. 103, that conclude the disc. A fine Fauré cornerstone to an album collection, beautifully recorded by Chandos at the Snape Maltings Concert Hall.
© TiVo
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Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Percy Grainger, Arranger - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Pelleas et Melisande Suite, Op. 80 (Gabriel Fauré)
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist - Alfred Corto, Arranger
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Nine Préludes, Op. 103 (Gabriel Fauré)
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Gabriel Fauré, Composer - Louis Lortie, Piano, MainArtist
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
Album review
The appeal of Gabriel Fauré's music is difficult to capture in a program devoted exclusively to the composer, but pianist Louis Lortie has pulled it off here. The trick is to present an intimate program that would have held together in the small venues for which Fauré intended his music. Lortie writes that "this album purposely travels through Fauré's various creative periods," and that's part of it: Fauré and his contemporaries would not have discarded his earlier music in recital. Consider the Pavane in F sharp minor, Op. 50, so often presented as a kind of glassed-in delicacy. Here it's something else entirely: a moment of stasis from which the subsequent pieces unfold as if in a dance. Central to the program are the three Barcarolles, Nos. 5, 6, and 7, again not put together, but placed in contrast to the works that surround them, each with a different treatment of the basic gondolier inspiration. Beyond the intelligently structured program is Lortie's wonderfully restrained playing in the individual pieces: the temperature never rises above warm, but every single thing is lively. Sample anywhere, but you could start with the rather rare original piano versions of the incidental music to Pelléas et Mélisande or with the subtle, chromatic Nine Preludes, Op. 103, that conclude the disc. A fine Fauré cornerstone to an album collection, beautifully recorded by Chandos at the Snape Maltings Concert Hall.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 01:14:49
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Louis Lortie
- Composer: Gabriel Fauré
- Label: Chandos
- Genre: Classical
2016 Chandos Records 2016 Chandos Records
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