Word: faure
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year before he died, the sinuous lines of the violin float on air while the piano furnishes ground swells of sound. Debussy's directions for the second movement-"fantastic and light"-set the entire mood for French Violinist Christian Ferras and Pianist Pierre Barbizet. They also play Fauré's Second Violin Sonata, written like Debussy's in 1917 and likewise impressionist in manner, but more restrained...
...FAURÉ: LA CHANSON D'ÈVE, AND FAURÉ'DEBUSSY: SIX VERLAINE POEMS SUNG BY PHYLLIS CURTIN (Cambridge). In the Song of Eve, Charles van Lerberghe's poetry runs with Eve through paradise on the world's first morning-fresh, vibrant, exulting. Fauré's setting is considerably tamer, though it echoes the poet's purity, as does Soprano Curtin. The flip side of this unusual record consists of settings by Fauré and Debussy of the same six Verlaine lyrics. It is a tribute to the richness of French songs that both...
FRENCH ART SONGS (RCA Victor). Like the symbolist poets whose verses he sings, Tenor Cesare Valletti evokes sensuous, delicately colored scenes in narrow frames. There are Verlaine's Clair de Lune set to music by three composers (Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré and Joseph Szulc), Verlaine's C'est I'Extase by Debussy, and Baudelaire's L'lnvitation au Voyage by Henri Duparc...
...FAURÉ: PIANO QUARTET IN G MINOR (RCA Victor). The slow passages by this master of muted color and subtle modulation are like a descent in a bathysphere. New and mysterious vistas open as the harmonies shift. The long-trailing melodies can sound flaccid but not when spun out by the Festival Quartet, including Virtuoso Violist William Primrose and Violinist Szy-mon Goldberg...
...Prokofiev had no affinity for the cello, but with the counsel of Soviet Cellist Mstislav Rostropoyich, he made his cello concerto one of his loveliest works. Here it is impeccably performed by Erich Leinsdorf, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Cellist Samuel Mayes in a recording that also includes Gabriel Fauré's noble little...