Fauré - Complete Piano Music

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Fauré - Complete Piano Music

Awards:

Penguin Guide

Rosette Winner

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Hyperion

Catalogue No:

CDA66911/4

Discs:

4

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0034571169118

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CD
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Fauré - Complete Piano Music


Fauré:

Impromptus Nos. 1-6

Thème & Variations, Op. 73

Romances sans paroles (3), Op. 17

Valses Caprices (4)

Barcarolles Nos. 1-13

Nocturnes Nos. 1-13

Souvenirs de Bayreuth

with Martin Roscoe (piano)

Pièces brèves (8), Op. 84

Dolly Suite, Op. 56

with Martin Roscoe (piano)

Mazurka, Op. 32


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playFauré: Impromptu #1 In E Flat, Op. 25

playFauré: Impromptu #2 In F Minor, Op. 31

playFauré: Impromptu #3 In A Flat, Op. 34

playFauré: Impromptu #4 In D Flat, Op. 91

playFauré: Impromptu #5 In F Sharp Minor, Op. 102

playFauré: Impromptu #6 In D Flat, Op. 86 Bis

playFauré: Thème Et Variations, Op. 73 - Theme

playFauré: Thème Et Variations, Op. 73 - Var. 1: L'Istesso Tempo

playFauré: Thème Et Variations, Op. 73 - Var. 2: Più Mosso

playFauré: Thème Et Variations, Op. 73 - Var. 3: Un Poco Più Mosso

playFauré: Thème Et Variations, Op. 73 - Var. 4: L'Istesso Tempo

playFauré: Thème Et Variations, Op. 73 - Var. 5: Un Poco Più Mosso

playFauré: Thème Et Variations, Op. 73 - Var. 6: Molto Adagio

playFauré: Thème Et Variations, Op. 73 - Var. 7: Allegro Moderato

playFauré: Thème Et Variations, Op. 73 - Var. 15: Andante Molto Moderato

playFauré: Thème Et Variations, Op. 73 - Var. 9: Quasi Adagio

playFauré: Thème Et Variations, Op. 73 - Var. 10: Allegro Vivo

playFauré: Thème Et Variations, Op. 73 - Var. 11: Andante Molto, Moderato Espressivo

playFauré: Romances Sans Paroles, Op. 17 - 1. Andante Quasi Allegretto

playFauré: Romances Sans Paroles, Op. 17 - 2. Allegro Molto

playFauré: Romances Sans Paroles, Op. 17 - 3. Andante Moderato

playFauré: Valse-Caprice #1 In A, Op. 30

playFauré: Valse-Caprice #2 In D Flat, Op. 38

playFauré: Valse-Caprice #3 In G Flat, Op. 59

playFauré: Valse-Caprice #4 In A Flat, Op. 62

playFauré: Nocturnes, Op. 33 - #1 in E Flat Minor

playFauré: Nocturnes, Op. 33 - #2 In B

playFauré: Nocturnes, Op. 33 - #3 In A Flat Minor

playFauré: Nocturne #4 In E Flat, Op. 36

playFauré: Nocturne #5 In B Flat, Op. 37

playFauré: Nocturne #6 In D Flat, Op. 63

playFauré: Nocturne #7 In C Sharp Minor, Op. 74

playMessager: Souvenirs De Beyreuth

playFauré: Huit Pièces Brèves, Op. 84 - 1. Capriccio In E Flat

playFauré: Huit Pièces Brèves, Op. 84 - 2. Fantaisie In A Flat

playFauré: Huit Pièces Brèves, Op. 84 - 3. Fugue In A Minor

playFauré: Huit Pièces Brèves, Op. 84 - 4. Adagietto In E Minor

playFauré: Huit Pièces Brèves, Op. 84 - 5. Improvisation In C Sharp Minor

playFauré: Huit Pièces Brèves, Op. 84 - 6. Fugue In E Minor

playFauré: Huit Pièces Brèves, Op. 84 - 7. Allegresse In C

playFauré: Huit Pièces Brèves, Op. 84 - 8. Nocturne No 8 In D Flat

playFauré: Dolly, Op. 56 - 1. Berceuse

playFauré: Dolly, Op. 56 - 2. Mi-A-Ou

playFauré: Dolly, Op. 56 - 3. Le Jardin De Dolly

playFauré: Dolly, Op. 56 - 4. Kitty-Valse

playFauré: Dolly, Op. 56 - 5. Tendresse

playFauré: Dolly, Op. 56 - 6. Le Pas Espagnol

playFauré: Préludes, Op. 103 - #1 In D Flat

playFauré: Préludes, Op. 103 - #2 In C Sharp Minor

playFauré: Préludes, Op. 103 - #3 In G Minor

playFauré: Préludes, Op. 103 - #4 In F

playFauré: Préludes, Op. 103 - #5 In D Minor

playFauré: Préludes, Op. 103 - #6 In E Flat Minor

playFauré: Préludes, Op. 103 - #7 In A

playFauré: Préludes, Op. 103 - #8 In C Minor

playFauré: Préludes, Op. 103 - #9 In E Minor

playFauré: Mazurka In B Flat, Op. 32

playFauré: Huit Pièces Brèves, Op. 84 - Nocturne #8 In D Flat

playFauré: Nocturne #9 In B Minor, Op. 97

playFauré: Nocturne #10 In E Minor, Op. 99

playFauré: Nocturne #11 In F Sharp Minor, Op. 104/1

playFauré: Nocturne #12 In E Minor, Op. 107

playFauré: Nocturne #13 In B Minor, Op. 119

Gramophone Classical Music Guide

2010

“Fauré's piano works are among the most subtly daunting in all keyboard literature. Encompassing Fauré's entire creative life, they range through an early, finely wrought eroticism via sporting with an aerial virtuosity as teasing and light as the elements themselves (the Valsescaprices) to the final desolation of his last years.
There, in his most powerful works ( Barcarolles Nos 7-11, Nocturnes Nos 11-13), he faithfully mirrors a pain that 'scintillates in full consciousness', a romantic agony prompted by increasing deafness and a lack of recognition that often seemed close to oblivion. Few compositions have reflected a darker night of the soul, and Fauré's anguish, expressed in both numbing resignation and unbridled anger, could surely only be exorcised by the articulation of such profound and disturbing emotional complexity.
The task for the pianist, then, is immense, but in Kathryn Stott Fauré has a subtle and fearless champion. How thrilled Fauré would have been by the sheer immediacy of Stott's responses.
Time and again she throws convention to the winds, and although it would be surprising if all her performances were consistent successes, disappointments are rare. Sometimes her rubato and luxuriant pedalling soften the outlines of Fauré's starkest, most austere utterances. But such quibbles remain quibbles. The Fourth Nocturne is gloriously supple, and the 13 Barcarolles show Stott acutely responsive to passion and finesse alike. The Pièces brèves, too, are played with rare affection. Stott proves herself a stylish and intriguing pianist.”

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