Faure Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte

If I had to pick only a handful of discs to single out as being of extreme worth to me personally - this would be one of them. There are just some works out there where the composer was inspired to record something truly extraordinary. This is one such work and this recording is the best that I know of. I have also spent a lot of time with the Fournet, Rotterdam recording Fauré: Requiem; Pavane; Pelléas et Mélisande . And while I think that is a fine recording, this ASMF recording with Marriner is a cut above. The playing is sensuous and refined, the tempos are perfect to convey the feeling of the music. This recording has lifted me up at some very low times in my life, and never ceases to convey power, wonder, and awe.

We know Gabriel Fauré the composer well but little the pedagogue. This recording aims to highlight the influence of the composer in France and even in Europe when, in 1896, he became professor at the Paris conservatory taking over from Massenet. The program of this disc wishes to bring together one of the work of his last périod and compositions by his illustrious students: Ravel, Boulanger et Enesco.

Pianist Hervé Sellin offers us a jazz recomposition of the works of Fauré and Ravel.

The second album of the retrospective we've dedicated to Markus Klinko prior to the opening of the Paris exhibition of his work as a photographer. During his time as an internationally renowned harpis he gathered the best French cahmber works from the late romantic and modern eras. This album includes such masterpieces as Debussy’s Dances or Ravel’s Introduction et allegro, pieces in which the harp successfully replaces the piano (Fauré’s Berceuse) or witty arrangements (Satie’s Gymnopédie transcribed for flute and harp).

Pianist Hervé Sellin offers us a jazz recomposition of the works of Fauré and Ravel.

Pianist Hervé Sellin offers us a jazz recomposition of the works of Fauré and Ravel.