Professor of Musicology Carlo Caballero remembers when he fell in love with the music of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): “It was when I heard his ‘Requiem’ as an undergrad at Pomona College [in southern ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Encounters with Fauré’s piano music in recitals are generally limited to small selections of pieces, but there ...
Fauré composed chamber music more or less throughout his life, but it is the extraordinary series of works that he produced in the first decades of the 20th century up to his death in 1924 that place ...
This combination of images shows cover art for Brad Mehldau's “Après Fauré," left, and “After Bach II." (Nonesuch Records via AP) Grammy-award winning jazz pianist Brad Mehldau connects the dots as ...
‘The human soul dreams of being cradled like a child’ — Fauré’s Requiem offers a radiant and tender vision of heaven, comforting audiences far beyond the composer’s original Parisian congregation.
Alban Gerhardt's account of Fauré's two cello sonatas, both late works, repay careful listening. Like the works themselves, his playing and that of the pianist Cecile Licad is full of subtleties, the ...
Romance Andreas Brantelid, Cello Bengt Forsberg, Piano Gabriel Fauré, Composer Papillon Andreas Brantelid, Cello Gabriel Fauré, Composer Bengt Forsberg, Piano Sérénade Bengt Forsberg, Piano Andreas ...
For his latest release on Sony Classical, pianist Lucas Debargue turns to one of the unsung treasuries of the piano repertoire - the works of Gabriel Fauré. In a remarkable undertaking, Debargue has ...
In partnership with La Maison Française at New York University, the Department of French and Italian Studies at Princeton University, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse and the ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Those who know him only by the Requiem may be surprised to learn that, at least for connoisseurs, the real Fauré was ...
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