Fauré & Poulenc: Aubade
Howard Shelley (conductor & piano)
Västerås Sinfonietta
Howard Shelley treats both [works] without any sentimental swooning, thereby bringing out the Baroque architecture that underpins their Romantic surfaces…altogether the disc succeeds absolutely...
Fauré & Poulenc: Aubade
Howard Shelley (conductor & piano)
Västerås Sinfonietta
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Howard Shelley treats both [works] without any sentimental swooning, thereby bringing out the Baroque architecture that underpins their Romantic surfaces…altogether the disc succeeds absolutely...
About
British pianist and conductor Howard Shelley features on this new recording with the Swedish chamber orechestra Västerås Sinfonietta, one of Sweden’s oldest orchestras. French music is on the menu – Gabriel Fauré’s “Suite from Masques et Bergamasque” and “Pavanne”, coupled with Francis Poulenc’s “Aubade” and the very suitable “Sinfonietta”.
Contents and tracklist
- Västerås Sinfonietta, Gabriel Fauré, Howard Shelley
- Västerås Sinfonietta, Francis Poulenc, Howard Shelley
- Västerås Sinfonietta, Gabriel Fauré, Howard Shelley
- Västerås Sinfonietta, Francis Poulenc, Howard Shelley
Awards and reviews
Christmas 2016
Howard Shelley treats both [works] without any sentimental swooning, thereby bringing out the Baroque architecture that underpins their Romantic surfaces…altogether the disc succeeds absolutely in its declared intention of showing how, in their different idioms, two of France’s greatest composers dealt with what Debussy called ‘the ghost of old Klingsor’
