BaL 12.11.11 - Fauré: Nocturnes

[ardcarp]

there's a bit too much Lisztian influence in some of them

Liszt may be one of his influences........but hang on; you wouldn't be deceived into thinking you were listening to Liszt would you? In fact SP gave, towards the end, the best explanation of Faure's 'voice' that I've ever heard. He (Faure) didn't invent an entirely new sound world in the Satie-Debussy-Ravel sense, but his harmonic language is none the less very individual; quite difficult to pin down with its apparent use of conventional chords, but with an odd and unpredictable chromatic side-stepping. Very hard to do as student pastiche! The Thyssens-Valentin playing, with its clarity and transparency was a revelation, I thought.

[Nick Armstrong]

Very hard to do as student pastiche!

Very good point: a student pastiche would be very hard indeed, whereas I should imagine that it would be a doddle to produce a pastiche that sounded exactly like Liszt... A lot of Liszt sounds to me like a pastiche of Liszt

[silvestrione]

A lot of Liszt sounds to me like a pastiche of Liszt

[verismissimo]

Absolutely loving the Thyssens-Valentin. Such exquisite playing. Reminds me of Richter at his best.

[Nick Armstrong]

Absolutely loving the Thyssens-Valentin. Such exquisite playing. Reminds me of Richter at his best.

Had it on myself again only yesterday evening. Stunning. Music that was once opaque to me makes sense, beautifully.

[antongould]

Germaine's done it! I can't stop listening to these pieces !!

Managed to save enough three penny bits to purchase the good lady’s performance ….. absolutely wonderful IMVVHO ……