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Gabriel / Messager, Andre Faure, Gabriel Faure, Pierre-Alain Volondat
Fauré: Four Hand Piano Music
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Classical

Track Listings (24) - Disc #1
1. Souvenirs De Bayreuth: I
2. Souvenirs De Bayreuth: II
3. Souvenirs De Bayreuth: III
4. Souvenirs De Bayreuth: IV
5. Souvenirs De Bayreuth: V
6. Huit Pieces Breves, Op.84: I. Capriccio
7. Huit Pieces Breves, Op.84: II. Fant
8. Huit Pieces Breves, Op.84: III. Fugue in a
9. Huit Pieces Breves, Op.84: IV. Adagietto
10. Huit Pieces Breves, Op.84: V. Improvisation
11. Huit Pieces Breves, Op.84: VI. Fugue in e
12. Huit Pieces Breves, Op.84: VII. Allegresse
13. Huit Pieces Breves, Op.84: VIII. Nocturne No.8
14. Masques Et Bergamasques, Op.112: Ov
15. Masques Et Bergamasques, Op.112: Menuet
16. Masques Et Bergamasques, Op.112: Gavotte
17. Masques Et Bergamasques, Op.112: Pastorale
18. Allegro Symphonique, Op.68 (From Ste, Op.20)
19. Dolly Ste, Op.56: Berceuse
20. Dolly Ste, Op.56: Mi-a-ou
21. Dolly Ste, Op.56: Le Jardin De Dolly
22. Dolly Ste, Op.56: Kitty Valse
23. Dolly Ste, Op.56: Tendresse
24. Dolly Ste, Op.56: Le Pas Espagnol

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CD Details

All Artists: Gabriel / Messager, Andre Faure, Gabriel Faure, Pierre-Alain Volondat
Title: Fauré: Four Hand Piano Music
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 5/16/2000
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Fantasies, Improvisation, Short Forms, Suites, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 730099463829

CD Reviews

Enough with the metronome, already!

JMB1014 | USA | 02/24/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"As a lifelong fan of Faure, I was really disappointed with this recording. It defeats me how such charming music can be played so charmlessly. I want to call this the John Philip Sousa version of Faure's music for piano, four hands. There is a metronomic brutality to what are supposed to be lovely, gossamer strands of French impressionistic music. All we need is a Prussian with spiked helmet and monocle harumphing along to complete the visual portrait suggested by this abject performance. I am seriously glad it cost me only $4.99 - but at that it was five times as expensive as it should have been. I have Robert and Gaby Casadesus playing some of these pieces - beautifully. Also, Serge Baudo conducted a really lovely orchestral performance years ago on LP (Seraphim). Faure's tender, delicate melodies are accustomed to wearing pastels like lavender, mauve, pale yellow, and gray; they deserve better than to be shoved into a red and gold uniform and sent off to high-step down the Rue Lacrymale."