Description
Gabriel Fauré — Barcarolles (Complete) & Ballade, Naxos (Audio CD)
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Product Details
- UPC: 730099463423
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Composer: Gabriel Fauré
- Performer: Pierre-Alain Volondat (piano)
- Catalogue No.: 8.553634
- Release Year: 1996
- Genre: Classical — Piano Music
- Country of Producing: Germany
Product Features
- Format: Audio CD, DDD (digital recording/mixing/mastering)
- Playing Time: 77'14"
- Recorded at Singel Concert Hall, Antwerp, Belgium
- Liner notes in English, German, French, and Dutch
- Condition: sealed, shrinkwrap intact [confirm — factory seal unbroken]
Overview
Fauré wrote his thirteen Barcarolles across four decades, from 1881 to 1921 — long enough that they trace his whole harmonic evolution, from the lyrical Romanticism of No. 1 to the spare, almost modernist late style of No. 13. Hearing all thirteen together, as this disc lets you do, is a different experience than picking a favorite off a compilation: you hear a composer quietly rebuilding his own language piece by piece.
Pierre-Alain Volondat closes the program with the Ballade in F sharp major, Op. 19, in its original solo piano guise rather than the more commonly heard version with orchestra — a nice reminder that the piece started life as a purely pianistic conception before Fauré expanded it. At 77 minutes, this is a generously filled disc, recorded with clean, detailed DDD sound at Antwerp's Singel Concert Hall in 1995. Good pick for anyone assembling a serious Fauré piano collection rather than just sampling the famous bits.
Interesting Facts
- Fauré composed his Barcarolles over a 40-year span (1881–1921), making the set a rare document of a single composer's stylistic development within one genre.
- The Ballade, Op. 19, was originally conceived for solo piano in 1879 before Fauré later orchestrated it — this recording restores the original conception.
- Fauré served as director of the Paris Conservatoire and taught composers including Ravel and Nadia Boulanger, shaping much of the next generation of French music.
- Despite progressive hearing loss in his later years that eventually left him unable to hear high or low pitches accurately, Fauré kept composing into his late works, including the later Barcarolles on this disc.
- The cover reproduces Paul Mathey's 1885 portrait of Fauré, painted the same decade several of these Barcarolles were written.
Track Listing
- Barcarolle No. 1 in A minor, Op. 26 (5:28)
- Barcarolle No. 2 in G major, Op. 41 (6:57)
- Barcarolle No. 3 in G flat major, Op. 42 (7:23)
- Barcarolle No. 4 in A flat major, Op. 44 (4:03)
- Barcarolle No. 5 in F sharp minor, Op. 66 (6:20)
- Barcarolle No. 6 in E flat major, Op. 70 (3:17)
- Barcarolle No. 7 in D minor, Op. 90 (3:24)
- Barcarolle No. 8 in D flat major, Op. 96 (3:31)
- Barcarolle No. 9 in A minor, Op. 101 (4:42)
- Barcarolle No. 10 in A minor, Op. 104 No. 2 (4:02)
- Barcarolle No. 11 in G minor, Op. 105 (5:31)
- Barcarolle No. 12 in E flat major, Op. 106 bis (3:35)
- Barcarolle No. 13 in C major, Op. 116 (4:11)
- Ballade in F sharp major, Op. 19 — original version for solo piano (14:51)
Publishers
Naxos. Recorded at Singel Concert Hall, Antwerp, Belgium, 25–27 August 1995. Producer/Engineer: Manuel Mohino (Musica Numeris). Music Notes: Keith Anderson.
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