Professor of Musicology Carlo Caballero remembers when he fell in love with the music of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): “It was when I heard his ‘Requiem’ as an undergrad at Pomona College [in southern ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Encounters with Fauré’s piano music in recitals are generally limited to small selections of pieces, but there ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Those who know him only by the Requiem may be surprised to learn that, at least for connoisseurs, the real Fauré was ...
Soprano Véronique Gens, mezzo Fleur Barron, tenor Laurence Kilsby and baritone Stéphane Degout came together to cover almost half of Fauré’s entire song output Of all this year’s significant musical ...
The later, string-quintet version of Fauré’s song cycle, celebrating his affection for the married Emma Bardac, is sung and played with beauty and finesse Nicky Spence/Julius Drake/Piatti Quartet: ...
The Music: Fauré noted that his requiem was ‘composed for nothing... for fun’. The loss of his parents may have conditioned his outlook while creating the score’s first version during 1887-88. But the ...
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