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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Fauré - Works for Cello & Piano
Ophélie Gaillard (cello) & Bruno Fontaine (piano) Born in 1845, the French composer and organist Gabriel Fauré is now acknowledged as one of the most important writers of chamber music of his period. The delicate and elegant style of his music, redolent of the salons of Parisian high-society, is underpinned by a core of emotional depth and an often adventurous approach to harmony. Although he did not compose a great deal of music for the solo cello, he seems to have had a special affinity for the instrument and its lyrical qualities. It is therefore no surprise that these works have become favourites with both audiences and performers. This recording contains all the pieces originally written by Fauré for cello and piano, including one of his most beautiful and enduring short compositions, the “Elégie”, opus 24, and the two sonatas, opus 109 and 119. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | David DanielsLes Nuits D’été, Op.7
David Daniels (Countertenor) Ensemble Orchestral De Paris, John Nelson | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mischa Maisky - Adagio
Mischa Maisky (cello) Orchestre de Paris, Semyon Bychkov | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Faure: Orchestral Works
Kathryn Stott (piano), Peter Dixon (cello), Richard Davis (flute) BBC Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Gymnopédies
I Cameristi Orchestra da Camera di Trento e Verona, Dini Diego Ciacci | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Fauré - Violin Concerto
Rodolfo Bonucci (violin) & Viocheslav Ponomarev (cello) Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México, Enrique Bátiz | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Paul Tortelier plays Fauré & Debussy
Paul Tortelier (cello) & Jean Hubeau (piano) Digitally remastered “Although a little strait-laced in the Élégie, Tortelier and Hubeau are marvellous advocates for Fauré's magnificent cello sonatas, with their mix of passion and eloquence, and they are majestic in Debussy's late Sonata.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2008 ***** | 
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| |  | Fauré - Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2
Maria Kliegel (cello) & Nina Tichman (piano) Fauré’s two cello sonatas are compact, beautifully written works whose musical language, with its many subtle changes of tonality and gift for melody, has been described as conveying ‘the power of tranquil thought’. Written in the summer of 1917, during the First World War, the neglected First Sonata begins with a troubled Allegro, followed by an eloquent Andante and a sparkling Finale. The C minor Andante of the Second Sonata has its origin in a Chant funèbre commissioned for the celebration in May 1921 of the centenary of the death of Napoleon. This recital also includes an arrangement of the ever-popular song Après un rêve, as well as the virtuosic Papillon. “Nina Tichman uses Fauré's powerful left-hand lines correctly as counterweight to the cello's soaring tunes. Impassioned playing from her Kliegel gives us not only the two sonatas, but also the Elégie and even the Romance as the fine, strong works they are.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 *** “In both sonatas and in the shorter pieces Kliegel plays with an impressively wide dynamic range down to a mete whisper of pianissimo, perfectly articulated.” Gramophone Magazine, 2008 Awards Issue | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Proustor How The Heart Skips A Beat
Stéphanie Romberg, Eleonora Abbagnato, Manuel Legris, Stephane Bullion, Hervé Moreau (dancers) Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris & Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris, Koen Kessels In 1974, Roland Petit, probably the greatest and certainly one of the most prolific of 20th century French
choreographers he was the first person to create a work based on Proust's novel, A la recherche du temps
perdu, completed in 1922, the year of his death.The book, better known to Anglo-Saxon readers as In Search
of Lost Time, in which the author's homosexuality is latent, was written over the last 14 years of his life. Marcel
Proust mingles childhood souvenirs with adolescent memories and is full of nostalgia for places once visited
and exhibitions he'd seen. He dwells lengthily on love, passion, and jealousy and inevitably questions one's
reason for living.
Proust ou les intermittences du coeur has now happily entered into the repertoire of the Paris Opéra Ballet.It
consists of 13 vignettes inspired by the seven lengthy tomes which complete the unabridged work, Petit has
chosen to convey the spirit of the novel via a succession of impressionistic tableaux which reflect the changing
moods of the writer as he oscillated between periods of intense happiness and deep depression.And
although the choreographer paints a merciless portrait of the aristocracy and bourgeoisie during the Belle
Epoque, the highlights of the work lie in the series of poetical pas de deux, which at times might have seemed
a little disconnected, but at which the French choreographer is past master. Choreography & stage direction Roland Petit; Designer Luisa Spinatelli; Sets Bernard Michel; Lighting Jean-Michel Désire Palais Garnier, March 2007 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Fauré - The Works for cello and piano
Xavier Gagnepain (cello) & Jean-Michel Dayez (piano) “Music consists in raising us as far as possible above what is. I carry within me a certain desire for things that do not exist.” Gabriel Fauré | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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