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Faure - The Music for Cello & Piano

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BIS2220

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 30th June 2017

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In French music, Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) forms a link between Romanticism and modernism: in Paris in the year of his birth, Chopin was still composing, and by the time of his death, jazz was all the rage, while Stravinsky was championing neoclassicism. This present recording contains all of Fauré’s music for cello and piano, including the much-loved Élégie and Sicilienne – pieces that are sometimes described as ‘salon music’, with qualities that caused Debussy to dub the composer ‘the master of charms’.

Interspersed with this lighter fare are also the two sonatas from Fauré’s later period when, suffering from increasing deafness, he developed a more pared-down style. Even though the sonatas came into being only a few years apart they are nevertheless quite different – appearing in 1917 Sonata No.1 in D minor is very much a wartime work, at times almost violent and rough. The G minor Sonata is altogether more accessible, with a vivacious finale that caused the composer Vincent d’Indy to remark to the 78-year old Fauré: ‘How lucky you are to stay young like that!’

Andreas Brantelid’s previous release for BIS – a disc with music by Grieg and Percy Grainger – received critical acclaim including a Gramophone Editor’s Choice. For this all-Fauré programme he has chosen to collaborate with pianist and highly respected chamber musician Bengt Forsberg.

“Brantelid's feverish energy, tonal and textural range add something new. The Andante has a glistening innocence…”
- ***** BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015

“Brantelid is certainly virtuoso… Hugely recommened.” - Editor’s Choice, Gramophone, May 2015

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