Louis Lortie - A Fauré Recital, Vol. 1: Après un rêve '2016

Tracks list

Tracklist
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01. Pavane, Op. 50 (Arr. for Piano)
02. Barcarolle No. 5 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 66
03. Nocturne No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 36
04. Barcarolle No. 6 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70
05. Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 1 (Arr. for Piano)
06. Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80 (Version for Piano): I. Prélude
07. Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80 (Version for Piano): III.
Sicilienne
08. Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80 (Version for Piano): II. Fileuse
[Arr. A. Cortot]
09. Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, Op. 80 (Version for Piano): IV. La mort de
Mélisande
10. Barcarolle No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 90
11. Nocturne No. 6 in D-Flat Major, Op. 63
12. 9 Préludes, Op. 103: No. 1, —
13. 9 Préludes, Op. 103: No. 2, —
14. 9 Préludes, Op. 103: No. 3, —
15. 9 Préludes, Op. 103: No. 4, —
16. 9 Préludes, Op. 103: No. 5, —
17. 9 Préludes, Op. 103: No. 6, —
18. 9 Préludes, Op. 103: No. 7, —
19. 9 Préludes, Op. 103: No. 8, —
20. 9 Préludes, Op. 103: No. 9, —

This is the first volume in Louis Lortie’s new series devoted to the
music of Gabriel Fauré. 

As he states in the booklet notes, ‘this album purposely travels through
Faurés various creative periods, from easily appealing early pieces such as
the Pavane and the mélodie “Après un rêve” through to the
late and unjustly neglected Préludes, a masterpiece of condensed harmonic and
melodic audacity.’ 

Released after four volumes in an ongoing Chopin series – ‘an
exceptionally high order of playing’ (BBC Music) – this album,
besides the masterful late Op. 103 Préludes, unsurprisingly features in
Lortie’s words ‘the romantic, post-Chopinesque genres of the
Nocturnes and Barcarolles along with path-breaking small forms of neoclassical
aesthetics such as the suite from Pelléas et Mélisande, here in a solo
piano version highlighting the ambiguity of a canvas of pianistic and orchestral
colourings that would be a major influence on Fauré’s
successors’.

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