Chamber, Quintets, Fauré (composer)
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This isn't music that yields its secrets easily. Despite pages pulsing with all Fauré's sustained radiance and energy, the abiding impression is of music of such profound introspection that... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Chamber
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The songs are chosen, for the most part, with Véronique Gens’s voice in mind – no longer the bright soprano of 20 years ago, but now a warm and expressive mezzo, ideal in the more soulful melodies... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th April 2020
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Diapason d’Or, May 2020, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Le Sage offers consistently limpid playing, so unmistakeably French...Everywhere the pacing sounds utterly natural: Le Sage and the Ebene are the most persuasive guides through sometimes daunting... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Chamber
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One of the performers’ tasks [in the Franck] is to grade the excitements so that we get some feeling of shape in a whole movement. Here this task is fulfilled admirably, helped by discreet vibrato... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2020, Chamber Choice
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Gabriel Fauré: Horizons II
Simon Zaoui, Pierre Fouchenneret (violin), Raphaël Merlin, Marie Chilemme, Quatuor Strada
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Je n'aime pas le classique, mais ça j'aime bien!
Alicia de Larrocha (piano), Nelly Kokinos (piano), Vladimir Spivakov (violin), Sergei, Steven Isserlis (cello), Xavier De Maistre (piano), Julian Bream (guitar), Johns Williams (guitar), James Galway (flute), Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ), Samuel Lipman & Leo Litwin (pianos), Martin Hoherman (xylophone),...
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Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Romantic music for flute and harp, arranged by Donald Sosin
Nora Shulman (flute), Judy Loman (harp)
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The sweet-toned first violin Ralph Evans produces portamentos worthy of Fauré's friend Jacques Thibaud; Ortiz's playing blends in sensitively, dousing the texture with showers of pianistic glitter;... —
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Wagner’s interpretations are elegant and sensitive, betraying no hint of his instrument’s awkward bulk, but there are few faster or energetic pieces to balance a programme of unrelenting lyricism. —
