Faure, Gabriel (1845 - 1924)

[Lat-Literal]

GTV, yes, and I like Pascal Roge but more for Satie.

Here:

Hubeau v Collard v Thyssens-Valentin v Crossley:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2007/Oct07/Faure_Hubeau_2564699236.htm

And Crochet is interesting though not, I think, complete

(but then Hough's French album isn't wholly a French album).

[Rosie55]

All fantastic albums with something to offer the listener.
I like Croshaw's Ballade a lot and the Nocturnes of T-V, and anything recorded by Marguerite Long

[Rosie55]

Sorry Caliban, this was meant for you and I accidentally sent it to myself. Just when I thought I had my iPad mastered...
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=DECp2K2RLwQ

[Nick Armstrong]

Sorry Caliban, this was meant for you and I accidentally sent it to myself. Just when I thought I had my iPad mastered...
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=DECp2K2RLwQ

Ah thanks Rosie55! This and the other recent posts are very interesting. Just had a little go at that Fauré/Grainger piece myself - I'd forgotten, till you mentioned it, that it's in the same book as a Dowland/Grainger arrangement which is one of the pieces I'm trying to learn properly having removed the old toad Work from my back. It's very difficult (I didn't get very far)... ... but delightful. I'll listen to the track on the Meridian CD which I hadn't noticed when we were talking about it earlier.

[Stanley Stewart]

Heard a delightful performance of Faure's Piano Quartet, Op 15, No1, on yesterday's (7 Sept),
R3, Lunchtime Concert; Wm Howard, Simon Blendis (violin), Douglas Paterson (viola),
Jane Salmon (cello) - a real pleasure after gardening chores on a hot day!

[Rosie55]

Heard a delightful performance of Faure's Piano Quartet, Op 15, No1, on yesterday's (7 Sept),
R3, Lunchtime Concert; Wm Howard, Simon Blendis (violin), Douglas Paterson (viola),
Jane Salmon (cello) - a real pleasure after gardening chores on a hot day!

A great work!

[Rosie55]

Ah thanks Rosie55! This and the other recent posts are very interesting. Just had a little go at that Fauré/Grainger piece myself - I'd forgotten, till you mentioned it, that it's in the same book as a Dowland/Grainger arrangement which is one of the pieces I'm trying to learn properly having removed the old toad Work from my back. It's very difficult (I didn't get very far)... ... but delightful. I'll listen to the track on the Meridian CD which I hadn't noticed when we were talking about it earlier.

The reason for including the Apres en Rêve in the sleeve note is charming

[silvestrione]

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.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0000024...oding=UTF8&me=

Hmm, quite expensive, that's a shame. I'm looking for a single disc more modern recording than GTV (which is wonderful) and other bits and pieces, e.g. Samson Francois and Kempff.

[silvestrione]

Though I take it that this is it, on special with Presto:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Hyperion/CDA67064

[gurnemanz]

I don't know enough versions to compare, but I've been very happy with Collard, mentioned above. Good value on 4 CDs from Brilliant, licensed from EMI.

[Rosie55]

I enjoy the Stott, but also checked now and Croshaw has quite a substantial sample of the Ballade on the Discography page of her website. I think the samples only play from laptops, not iPads, but I could be wrong (I might need to buy a new iPad too!)

http://www.christinecroshaw.com/discography

[Serial_Apologist]

Has anyone caught today's episode of COTW? The first item up was the composer's Cantique de Jean Racine: did anyone else remark on its melody's remarkably close resemblance to the infamous Horst Wessel Lied?

[cloughie]

Has anyone caught today's episode of COTW? The first item up was the composer's Cantique de Jean Racine: did anyone else remark on its melody's remarkably close resemblance to the infamous Horst Wessel Lied?

No!

[Nick Armstrong]

No!

Same (and don’t want to think about it either!)

[Serial_Apologist]

Same (and don’t want to think about it either!)

Tunes that have been re-used and misused could almost provide a thread of its own here: Finlandia; Holst's Jupiter; The Red Flag....