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Fauré: The Complete Songs, Vol. 2

Malcolm Martineau (piano), John Chest (baritone), Janis Kelly (soprano), Lorna Anderson (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor), Ann Murray (mezzo), Nigel Cliffe (baritone), Thomas Oliemans (baritone), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Iestyn Davies (countertenor)

Fauré: The Complete Songs, Vol. 2

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Another lovely evening in an imaginary salon…a plurality of voices evokes a gathering of friends taking turns…At the heart of the disc, Lorna Anderson’s stillness in Le secret is utterly entrancing,...

BBC Music Magazine, December 20174 out of 5 stars

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Fauré: The Complete Songs, Vol. 2

Malcolm Martineau (piano), John Chest (baritone), Janis Kelly (soprano), Lorna Anderson (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor), Ann Murray (mezzo), Nigel Cliffe (baritone), Thomas Oliemans (baritone), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Iestyn Davies (countertenor)

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Another lovely evening in an imaginary salon…a plurality of voices evokes a gathering of friends taking turns…At the heart of the disc, Lorna Anderson’s stillness in Le secret is utterly entrancing,...

BBC Music Magazine, December 20174 out of 5 stars

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Pianist Malcolm Martineau brings together some of the UK’s finest singers for the second release in a new series charting the complete songs of French composer Gabriel Fauré.

This series follows Martineau’s well-received 5-CD series of The Complete Songs of Francis Poulenc.

Contents and tracklist

Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 5: No. 2, Rêve d'amour
Work length2:45
Fauré: L'aurore
Work length1:40
Fauré: 2 Duets, Op. 10
Work length5:42
No. 2, Tarentelle
Track length2:32
No. 1, Puisqu'ici-bas toute Âme
Track length3:10
Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 6: No. 1, Aubade
Work length2:18
Fauré: Vocalise No. 7
Work length1:04
Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 7: No. 3, Barcarolle
Work length2:42
Excerpt,Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 23
Work length4:39
No. 2, Notre amour
Track length1:58
No. 3, Le secret
Track length2:41
Fauré: 4 Songs, Op. 49: No. 3, Le pays des rêves
Work length4:02
Fauré: Shylock Suite, Op. 57
Work length3:08
No. 1, Prélude et chanson
Track length1:37
No. 3, Madrigal
Track length1:31
Fauré: Vocalise 22
Work length0:55
Fauré: Songs (3), Op. 85
Work length10:04
No. 1, Dans le forêt de Septembre
Track length3:40
No. 2, La fleur qui va sur l'eau
Track length2:15
No. 3, Accompagnement
Track length4:09
Fauré: 2 Songs, Op. 87
Work length3:13
No. 1, Le plus doux chemin
Track length1:26
No. 2, Le ramier
Track length1:47
Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 7: No. 2, Hymne
Work length2:31
Fauré: La chanson d'Ève, Op. 95
Work length23:53
No. 1, Paradis
Track length6:46
No. 2, Prima verba
Track length2:35
No. 3, Roses ardentes
Track length1:32
No. 4, Comme dieu rayonne
Track length1:46
No. 5, L’aube blanche
Track length1:22
No. 6, Eau vivante
Track length1:18
No. 7, Veilles-tu, ma senteur de soleil?
Track length1:42
No. 8, Dans un parfum de roses blanches
Track length1:59
No. 9, Crépuscule
Track length2:15
No. 10, O mort, poussière d'étoiles
Track length2:38

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Awards and reviews

December 2017

Another lovely evening in an imaginary salon…a plurality of voices evokes a gathering of friends taking turns…At the heart of the disc, Lorna Anderson’s stillness in Le secret is utterly entrancing, and Janis Kelly glides effortlessly in Le pays de rêves…Connolly is at her best, capturing the controlled, yet rapturous passion of [La chanson d’Eve].
4 out of 5 stars

July 2017

The second instalment of Malcolm Martineau’s survey of Fauré’s songs is exceptionally beautiful, both in choice of material and quality of performance...Martineau’s understanding of Fauré’s piano-writing, in which less means more and virtuosity is avoided in favour of nuance, remains impeccable.

October 2017

The words and the music are marvellously well interwoven, and Sarah Connolly sings the cycle with the utmost sensitivity.

The pleasure in this series is the rich variety of singers... which creates the atmosphere of a recital among friends...with Malcolm Martineau ever an authoritative, agile and responsive pianist.
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