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Faure: Piano Music / Stavy

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Composer
FAURE, GABRIEL
Artist
Nicolas Stavy
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Feb 01, 2019
Catalog #
BIS-2389
UPC
7318599923895

About

This recital could almost have been entitled Around Fauré in Sixty Minutes, as the programme devised by Nicolas Stavy spans the entire career of the composer. In April 1863, when Gabriel Fauré noted down the Sonata recorded here for the first time, his 18th birthday was still a month away – the masterly Nocturne in B minor Op. 119, on the other hand, is Fauré’s final work for the piano, composed only two years before his death in 1924. Between them, and the other works included on the album, a fascinating trajectory takes shape. In the Finale of the sonata we hear a young man enjoying himself as he experiments with a Haydnesque idiom; a few years later there are traces of Mendelssohn and Schumann in 3 Romances, and of Chopin in Mazurke – also a world première recording. Especially when it comes to the choice of genre, Chopin is still an influence during the 1870s and Nocturne No. 1 and the Ballade, but both works testify to a composer finding his own voice. Fauré went on to compose another 12 nocturnes and two of these, No. 6 in D flat major from 1894 and the aforementioned Nocturne in B minor, serve as snapshots illustrating Fauré's later career and the composer's path towards increasing abstraction and a style characterised by timelessness and a detachment from fashionable trends.

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 Nocturne No. 1 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 33, No. 1 06:54
    Track
    1
    Title
    Nocturne No. 1 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 33, No. 1
    Duration
    06:54
    Composer
    Gabriel Fauré
    Performer
    Nicolas Stavy
  2. 2 No. 1 in A-Flat Major 01:59
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 1 in A-Flat Major
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Gabriel Fauré
    Performer
    Nicolas Stavy
  3. 3 No. 2 in A Minor 02:44
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 2 in A Minor
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Gabriel Fauré
    Performer
    Nicolas Stavy
  4. 4 No. 3 in A-Flat Major 02:21
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 3 in A-Flat Major
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Gabriel Fauré
    Performer
    Nicolas Stavy
  5. 5 I. Allegro ma non troppo 03:41
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro ma non troppo
    Duration
    03:41
    Composer
    Gabriel Fauré
    Performer
    Nicolas Stavy
  6. 6 II. Menuet: Tempo di menuetto 02:56
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Menuet: Tempo di menuetto
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Gabriel Fauré
    Performer
    Nicolas Stavy
  7. 7 III. Finale: Allegro Vivo 04:29
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Finale: Allegro Vivo
    Duration
    04:29
    Composer
    Gabriel Fauré
    Performer
    Nicolas Stavy
  8. 8 Mazurke in B-Flat Major 02:15
    Track
    8
    Title
    Mazurke in B-Flat Major
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Gabriel Fauré
    Performer
    Nicolas Stavy
  9. 9 Nocturne No. 6 in D-Flat Major, Op. 63 08:22
    Track
    9
    Title
    Nocturne No. 6 in D-Flat Major, Op. 63
    Duration
    08:22
    Composer
    Gabriel Fauré
    Performer
    Nicolas Stavy
  10. 10 Nocturne No. 13 in B Minor, Op. 119 06:54
    Track
    10
    Title
    Nocturne No. 13 in B Minor, Op. 119
    Duration
    06:54
    Composer
    Gabriel Fauré
    Performer
    Nicolas Stavy
  11. 11 Ballade in F-Sharp Major, Op. 19 14:16
    Track
    11
    Title
    Ballade in F-Sharp Major, Op. 19
    Duration
    14:16
    Composer
    Gabriel Fauré
    Performer
    Nicolas Stavy