Fauré: Complete Piano Music Volume 2
Jean-Claude Pennetier (piano)
Pennetier focuses on the intimate nature of some of Faure's loveliest early piano works, casting them in a serious light. A beautiful selection, sympathetically played, if sometimes a little...
Fauré: Complete Piano Music Volume 2
Jean-Claude Pennetier (piano)
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Pennetier focuses on the intimate nature of some of Faure's loveliest early piano works, casting them in a serious light. A beautiful selection, sympathetically played, if sometimes a little...
About
An unclassifiable figure among his contemporaries, Gabriel Fauré created a new and wholly original style on the piano. This discreetly individual composer was inspired by the resources of the instrument to conceive music whose luminous, diaphanous sonorities always coupled with a firm transparency of texture. His extreme sensitivity in even his slightest works "discourages oafs, frivolous players and tourists, but speaks softly in the ear of those who deserve to hear", as Vladimir Jankélévitch wrote.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
December 2011
Pennetier focuses on the intimate nature of some of Faure's loveliest early piano works, casting them in a serious light. A beautiful selection, sympathetically played, if sometimes a little ponderous.
February 2012
In the Second Nocturne we are pleasantly roused by a sudden urgency of effect - this is about as fiery as Faure gets, and Pennetier doesn't hold back...The First Impromptu is a really strong reading also; one might actually say that this is ideal Faure playing: buoyant, smiling, flexible, yet majestic where needed.
