Review: Erato's Vintage Fauré Collection--An Excellent Bargain
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- This attractively priced 12-CD box contains familiar and mostly excellent performances of Fauré's complete piano, chamber, and orchestral works, plus choral favorites such as the Requiem and the Cantique de Jean Racine. Jean-Philippe Collard is the featured pianist, while the orchestral stuff goes to Michel Plasson and his Toulouse forces. Start with the haunting barcarolles for solo piano, then move on to the gorgeous piano quartets and quintets. As a starter collection and introduction to this most fastidious, quietly adventurous composer, you really can't go wrong.
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I really enjoyed your talk. It's high time people realised how great a musician Fauré was. He deserves a lot of respect. I agree with everything you said about him (melodies, chamber and piano music). I've had Les Barcarolles (Collard) since I was a teenager. Thank you again.
I see the name Fauré, I click.
I think the Nocturnes and Barcarolles are an excellent place to start exploring the music of this wonderful and sensuous composer. I’d rather listen to Fauré than either Debussy or Ravel any day of the week.
There are the Testament CDs of the piano music by Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, which are wonderful.
Yes, they are.
I love Faure, I did the poème d’un jour on my junior recital and la bonne chanson on my senior recital.
The final song of La Bonne Chanson actually does quote Wagner, the Forest Bird from Siegfried, but what he does with it is incredibly unexpected, and NOT poking fun, it’s glorious.
A good supplement to this box is the Elly Ameling, Souzay, and Dante Baldwin on Brilliant classics with the complete songs on four discs for a more complete representation of what he did as a composer.
Plasson’s recording of the requiem is fine, certainly better than Cluytens also on the label formerly known as EMI who was wrecked by the horrific Parisian choir, but Shaw is the recording one must hear of the Requiem.
Speaking of the World’s Most Beautiful Melodies, Faure’s Pavane.
YES, more Faure. I will never not upvote and drive engagement on Faure videos.
I already own the brilliant edition about Faure but this Erato compilation contains some top notch performances. Great Dave..as usual!
Many thanks for showcasing Fauré, and this fine collection, all the content of which I have in my collection in earlier EMI incarnations. Odd that Warner didn't choose any of the genuine Erato recordings of Fauré residing in their vaults. As I recall there was an estimable series of Fauré chamber music on Erato dating from earlier in the LP era. In any case, his is probably the most sheerly lovely body of chamber music written by any composer, elusive though some of it is.
Now that you have rectified the neglect of Fauré, there may be other composers underrepresented in your video chats and reviews. Handel is one (though you did a great ideal oratorio talk), Schubert is another (piano music, piano duets, and of course lieder and some chamber music), and there's so much more Haydn (quartet cycles, piano music, masses and oratorios), and, lest we forget, mounds and mounds of BWV entries. Keep on reviewing!
I quit...
Wonderful. I've thought that Fauré is underappreciated, and you point out why. About the songs, among the greatest ever, but they can be elusive on first hearing and they do require close listening and I have to admit some knowledge of French really helps (true of German Lieder et al, but I think the "mélodie" is a rarefied thing for the most part) . I'd like to recommend, very highly, the CD of Gérard Souzay singing Fauré on Philips. He had a perfect understanding of the style, which is firmly grounded in the language (I don't favor non-French speakers in this music). Some day I'll delve into Fauré's chamber music, after watching your future video on it.
I agree with you. I don't favour non-French speakers either. Some of them are very good though : Bernard Kruysen was absolutely fluent in French. As for Gérard Souzay, he could also sing in German.
I have good alternative recordings of just about all of the chamber and orchestral music in this box, but your comments on Faure's piano music prompted me to buy the set by Kathryn Stott on Hyperion. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for this Faure foray.
The 6th nocturne has always moved me intensely.
Thank you for this great presentation. I have been a lifelong lover of Fauré's music, and I hope this video gets many more views, because it's great to hear such an eloquent and knowledgeably thoughtful a champion of his music as your good self!
The elusiveness of his harmony is a feature you do justice to, and which becomes more elusive in his later works (it's especially noticeable in the String Quartet; a friend of mine called it "atonal" on first hearing - she was strictly speaking incorrect, but there are passages where the sense of key is so elusive that one can sort of see where she was coming from).
Incidentally, the String Quartet recycles material from an earlier violin concerto (especially the first subject of the first movement), which you don't mention - is the concerto included in the Erato collection?
I already have already plenty of Faure in my music collection - including his complete piano works. I was however interested in your comment about his expertise as a song composer as I have no CD solely devoted to Faure songs - although some of his songs appear on discs by individual performers. I thought this would an interesting avenue to expand my listening. A search of a few sites indicates that there are only two modern versions off the complete songs of Faure - one issued by Signum and involving (mostly) English speaking singers and the other by ATMA and involving French Canadian singers. Obviously the French do not place the same value on his song compositions as you do!
Those Piano Quartets are something else (have the Domus Quartet in those on Hyperion which are fantastic). Saint- Saens' Piano Trios are worth checking out IMHO too
My favorite recording of the first Piano Quartet is with the Beaux Art Trio and Kim Kashkashian on viola. However, I love Domus in the Brahms Piano Quartets so I will check out their Faure. And your right about the Saint - Saens. His Piano Trios are among the most enchanting chamber works in the repertoire and deserve more attention. The Joachim Trio recording on Naxos is excellent and available on Spotify.
@@edwinbelete76 Domus also has a nice recording of the Faure piano quintets with the addition of a guest violinist.
@@edwinbelete76 thanks for the Beaux Arts Trio recommendation - I'll try and check it out. Domus made some fantastic records (even relatively light weight stuff like Dvorak's Bagatelles take on a depth in their hands). I have the Joachim in the Saint-Saens too - great playing!
Listening to the exquisite Barcarolles in versions by Collard and Volondat (Naxos), I was more impressed with the latter's fluidity and sense of atmosphere, despite slower tempi. What's your opinion, dear David?
I haven't heard the Naxos versions. Sorry!
Hi Dave, will you comment the Nocturnes and Barcarolles by Hamelin on Hyperion? Best regards.
Eventually. I need to do a bit of listening to other versions first.
I like boxes, they are nice, cheap and take less place on your shelf. I was considering to buy this box-set but after comparing with other recordings on Spotify I ended up with the following choices: For Orchestral and concertante music, The Secret Fauré, 3 separate CDs on Sony. Piano Music: Kathryn Stott on Hyperion. Chamber Music: Intégrale de la musique de chambre avec Piano, 5 CD box-set on Alpha (Everything this company does is elegant) This leaves the string quartet out but I, and probably everyone else already have it since it is usualy coupled with other great quartets.
If you’re still in love with Faure, please try Germain Thyssens-Valentin’s piano works whether on Spotify or Testament cds. I also started Kathryn Stott, but GTV is special. Also, Jacques Herbillon’s melodies are unique, though his Caliope LPs haven’t been released on cd. Thankfully, however, you can find him on TH-cam!!
I sang the Pavanne (I think with an English language text) with the NYC All-City HS chorus at Carnegie Hall back in 1958 (!) What a beautiful work. I gather it's not in this box. More's the pity.
If I remember well the Pavane is actually part of Masques et Bergamasques so it’s probably in this box as such.
@@sergeabud7046 According to Dr.Wikipedia, Pavanne began life as an independent piece and was later incorporated into M&B; so we're both right. The question is whether the setting for chorus and orchestra is in the box.
Thanks again. diane lewis
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Check out the video.
Faure's complete works for cello, by Steven Isserlis and Pascal Devoyon is a long-time favourite, on RCA. The Hyperion release has awful sound quality.
I have the EMI cd re-issues of most of these recordings. IMO, a terrible inexplicable wrong is marketing EMI recordings under the Erato label. Very confusing and potentially misleading.