Fauré: The Complete music for cello & piano

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Brantelid’s light, bright, satiny tone suits Fauré’s style down to the ground – more of a high tenor than a hefty baritone – and Forsberg brings the composer’s piano writing into shimmering technicolor,... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Jun 2017
Catalogue No: BIS2220
Label: BIS
Length: 70 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

30th June 2017

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Fauré: Romance in A major for cello & piano, Op. 69

Work length3:37

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Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg

Fauré: Papillon, Op. 77

Work length2:44

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Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg

Fauré: Sérénade, Op. 98

Work length2:57

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Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg

Fauré: Berceuse, Op. 16

Work length3:30

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Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg

Fauré: Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 109

Work length20:46

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Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg
Recorded: November 2015
Recording Venue: Studio 2, Sveriges Radio, Stockholm, Sweden

I. Allegro

Track length5:43

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II. Andante

Track length7:10

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III. Finale. Allegro comodo

Track length7:53

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Fauré: Morceau de lecture (version for 2 cellos)

Work length0:58

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Andreas Brantelid, Filip Graden

Excerpt, Fauré: Dolly Suite, Op. 56

Work length2:27

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Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg

I. Berceuse. Allegretto moderato (Arr. for Cello & Piano)

Track length2:27

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Fauré: Sicilienne, Op. 78

Work length3:41

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Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg

Fauré: Élégie in C minor, Op. 24

Work length6:47

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Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg

Fauré: Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 117

Work length18:09

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Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg
Recorded: November 2015
Recording Venue: Studio 2, Sveriges Radio, Stockholm, Sweden

I. Allegro

Track length6:16

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II. Andante

Track length7:07

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III. Allegro vivo

Track length4:46

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Fauré: Andante for cello and organ (early version of Romance, Op. 69)

Work length4:31

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Andreas Brantelid, Bengt Forsberg

Andante for Cello & Organ (Early Version of Romance, Op. 69) [Version for Cello & Harmonium]

Track length4:31

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Recording of the Week, Andreas Brantelid and Bengt Forsberg perform Fauré's complete works for cello and piano

30th June 2017

David enjoys a charming and varied collection of works by the great French composer, performed by Andreas Brantelid and Bengt Forsberg.

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’. But 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.

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September 2017

Brantelid’s light, bright, satiny tone suits Fauré’s style down to the ground – more of a high tenor than a hefty baritone – and Forsberg brings the composer’s piano writing into shimmering technicolor, splendidly capturing its wealth of detail and constantly shifting, side-lit harmonic language

30th June 2017

Brantelid demonstrates his beautiful singing tone throughout this disc, and an excellent recorded balance between cello and piano means you hear all the detail at all times. The performers clearly have a great rapport as phrasing and character are always well matched.

September 2017

In the Second Sonata, a light touch and sense of fantasy make for an unusually successful rendition of the elusive finale. The recorded sound is bright and immediate.

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