This CD is constantly on in my car. The Ballade Op 19 is worth the price alone!
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Faure's piano music, I've never listened to very much. This sounds like a good one, as an introduction?Don’t cry for me
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I bought a set of Faure's pieces for solo piano - well, the complete works really. I've found them a bit slight and gradually grew bored with them. They don't have the weight and complexity I now feel mentally obliged to find in my music these days. Changing tastes, I guess, as the years go by. Once upon a time I found "Dolly Suite" charming and infectious - today these don't hold the appeal they once had.
Just like with food, our listening tastes are constantly evolving except for those staples in the 'diet' - as it were. I just love Faure's 'Requiem' and the chamber music; it's only the piano music I find slight.Comment
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More and more into Fauré, inc. the piano music. Good looking collection, that, of some of his more accessible pieces. Thanks for flagging it up, hadn't noticed it before - might have to invest.Originally posted by Rosie55 View Post
EDIT: Having listened to examples from the collection, I would venture to suggest that the playing and recording in this similar (though not identical) collection
by Kun Woo Paik slightly shades Ms Croshaw. The Ballade is there - would be interested to know what you think, Rosie55.
The Romance sans Paroles No. 3 is one of my favourite of all short piano works, and one of the pieces I'm currently practising, taking advantage of having given up work - I've fumbled through it for years, want to play it properly!
The Nocturnes are relatively elusive pieces, No 4 the least so probably; all in a classic and completely treasurable set on Testament played by Germaine Thyssens-ValentinLast edited by Nick Armstrong; 09-07-16, 16:33."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I wondered when Rumpole and Germaine T-V would show up ..... I also love the piano music of Faure and have listened to, and enjoyed, the CD. However for me the playing of Thyssens-Valentin in the Nocturnes is matchless .... when they were the subject of BAL there seemed very little Thyssens-Valentin (who "won") about - now she is all over Apple Music ... probably the same recordings on different labels ......Comment
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Pleased not to have disappointed you, anton !Originally posted by antongould View Post
Give Kun Woo Paik's CD a whirl."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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GTV is terrific in Faure - never felt the need to have any other recordingsComment
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The Nocturnes and Barcarolles are definitely works I find complex and fascinating if not necessarily "weighty" (well, they weigh as much as they ought to). I actually quite like Jean-Michel Damase's recordings, despite the dated sound and difficulty of finding them (recordings only seem to have appeared on CD from Accord). Although also possessing a complete set of the piano works (Kathryn Stott, very good if not perfect) and alternatives for these two series (Charles Owen).
The third and fifth Barcarolles in particular are among my favourite piano works in general.Comment
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GTV for me too, and I have to say that the late Nocturnes and Barcarolles strike me as every bit the equal of the late chamber works and song cycles (L'horizon chimérique is wonderful - listen to Charles Panzera in Diane, Séléné, the third song in the set). A greatly under-rated composer who deserves to be listened to closely. The music doesn't reveal itself straightaway but gradually seeps into the soul.Comment
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Kathryn Stott's recording of the complete piano music for Hyperion is excellent, but I return most often to her single disc collection originally on Conifer.Originally posted by Rosie55 View Post
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....Comment
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There's something simultaneously open and elusory about much of Faure's piano music, a kind of dappled light in the harmony, that keeps me coming back. I enjoy the Barcarolles and Nocturnes, early and late, and like his music more the older I get. Not sure how I'll react if I start getting younger. Very glad this thread came up as I haven't heard Germaine Thyssens-Valentin but can now make immediate amends.Comment
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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For me the new Meridian CD with Ms Croshaw has more depth of tone. Faure himself wanted more for his music, apparently complaining that many people played his music with the blinds half down. I think her performance of the Ballade has a depth of nuance which makes it very special for me.Originally posted by Caliban View PostMore and more into Fauré, inc. the piano music. Good looking collection, that, of some of his more accessible pieces. Thanks for flagging it up, hadn't noticed it before - might have to invest.
EDIT: Having listened to examples from the collection, I would venture to suggest that the playing and recording in this similar (though not identical) collection
by Kun Woo Paik slightly shades Ms Croshaw. The Ballade is there - would be interested to know what you think, Rosie55.
The Romance sans Paroles No. 3 is one of my favourite of all short piano works, and one of the pieces I'm currently practising, taking advantage of having given up work - I've fumbled through it for years, want to play it properly!
The Nocturnes are relatively elusive pieces, No 4 the least so probably; all in a classic and completely treasurable set on Testament played by Germaine Thyssens-Valentin
I very much enjoyed your recommendation also - thank you - but the spacious playing of Croshaw has beguiled me. I also enjoyed her Saint-Saens CD of a few years ago.Comment
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PS Have you seen this live video of her warming up at Kings Place playing the final track on the new Faure CD? I think this Grainger arrangement of Apres en reve is just beautiful... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DECp2K2RLwQOriginally posted by Rosie55 View PostComment
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Interestingly I read this review on this very Faure disc, published yesterday on Musicweb (I check in on their reviews daily)
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