Jean Hubeau - 3 Romances sans paroles op 17
Julian Lloyd Webber and John Lenehan -Sicilienne
André Messager - Souvenirs de Bayreuth: Quadrille on themes from Wagner's Ring
Faure Dolly Suite:Kitty Valse(mov.4),Duo Mento
Nocturne No. 6 in D flat, Op. 63 [Vlado Perlemuter]
Daria Janssen (Titova) Faure Elegy, Op.24 cello and piano
Impromptu no. 2, f minor, op. 31, Vasso Devetzi
Renaud Capuçon, Michel Dalberto: Fauré, Berceuse Op. 16
Piano Quartet No1 in C minor, Op.15 (1)
Pelléas et Mélisande 1/4, Paul Ransonby
Proust Piano Trio: Piano Trio in D minor, Op.120 II. Andantino
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Gabriel Urbain Fauré (pronounced: [ɡabʁiɛl yʁbɛ̃ fɔʁe]; 12 May 1845[n 1]– 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers. Among his best-known works are his Nocturnes for piano, the songs "Après un rêve" and "Clair de lune", and his Pavane and Requiem.
Born into a cultured but not unusually musical family, Fauré revealed his talent when he was a small boy. He was sent to a music college in Paris, where he was trained to be a church organist and choirmaster. Among his teachers was Camille Saint-Saëns, who became a lifelong friend. In his early years, Fauré earned a modest living as an organist and teacher, leaving him little time for composition. When he became successful, holding the important posts of organist of the Église de la Madeleine and head of the Paris Conservatoire, he still lacked time for composing, retreating to the countryside in the summer holidays to concentrate on composition.
By his last years, Fauré was recognised in France as the leading French composer of his day. An unprecedented national musical tribute was held for him in Paris in 1922 headed by the President of the Republic. Fauré had many admirers in England, but his music, though known in other countries, took decades more to become widely accepted. His music has been described as linking the end of Romanticism with the modernism of the second quarter of the 20th century. When he was born, Chopin was still composing, and by the time of his death the atonal music of the Second Viennese School was being heard. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which describes him as the most advanced composer of his generation in France, notes that his harmonic and melodic innovations affected the teaching of harmony for later generations. In contrast with the charm of his earlier music, his last works, written when increasing deafness had struck him, are elusive and withdrawn in character.
