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The Complete Songs of Fauré, Vol. 1
Gabriel Fauré

Malcolm Martineau

The Complete Songs of Fauré, Vol. 1

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Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212042724
Catnr: SIGCD 427
Release date: 16 September 2016
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Signum Classics
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0635212042724
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SIGCD 427
Release date
16 September 2016
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About the album

Some of the UK’s best singers come together for this album, which is the first release in a series profiling the complete songs of Gabriel Faure. Pianist Malcolm Martineau heads up this project, performing beautifully. This release follows his critically acclaimed series of The Complete Poulenc Songs. Vocalists featured on this release include Lorna Anderson, Nigel Cliffe, Ann Murray, John Chest, and more.
Eerste deel uit een serie met alle liederen van Fauré
Pianist Malcolm Martineau is gestart met het in kaart brengen van alle liederen van de Franse componist Gabriel Fauré. Voor dit eerste album in de serie bracht hij enkele van de populairste en beste zangers van het Verenigd Koninkrijk bij elkaar; onder wie Lorna Anderson, Nigel Cliffe en Ann Murray. Eerder al verzamelde Martineau alle liederen van Poulenc; een serie die heel goed is ontvangen.

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) was in zijn tijd een bekend componist van piano- en kamermuziek. Zelfs een opera behoorde tot zijn oeuvre. Fauré maakte in zijn leven een voortdurende ontwikkeling door. Hij vernieuwde de Franse religieuze muziek. En had een geheel eigen stijl, waarin hij zocht naar evenwicht tussen romantische gevoeligheid en strenge compositieregels. Het resultaat: een compromis tussen muzikale taal en vormgeving. Zijn muziek is ingetogen en fijnzinnig.

Tussen 1861 en 1921 ontwikkelde Fauré een rijkdom en subtiliteit in het componeren van liederen. De liederen van zijn vriend de componist Henri Duparc hadden slechts een tijdelijke invloed op zijn eigen werken. Terwijl Duparc de grote gebaren omarmde, gaf Fauré de voorkeur aan de suggestie en de nuance. Wat dat betreft lijkt zijn muziek op die van Erik Satie: zij spreekt elke luisteraar aan in bekende tonen.

Artist(s)

Malcolm Martineau

Malcolm Martineau was born in Edinburgh, read Music at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and studied at the Royal College of Music.  Recognised as one of the leading accompanists of his generation, he has worked with many of the world’s greatest singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Janet Baker, Olaf Bär, Barbara Bonney, Ian Bostridge, Angela Gheorghiu, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Della Jones, Simon Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager, Magdalena Kozena, Solveig Kringelborn, Jonathan Lemalu, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Karita Mattila, Lisa Milne, Ann Murray, Anna Netrebko, Anne Sofie von Otter, Joan Rodgers, Amanda Roocroft, Michael Schade, Frederica von Stade, Sarah Walker and Bryn Terfel. He has presented his own series at the Wigmore Hall (a Britten and a Poulenc series and Decade by...
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Malcolm Martineau was born in Edinburgh, read Music at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge and studied at the Royal College of Music.

Recognised as one of the leading accompanists of his generation, he has worked with many of the world’s greatest singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Janet Baker, Olaf Bär, Barbara Bonney, Ian Bostridge, Angela Gheorghiu, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Della Jones, Simon Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager, Magdalena Kozena, Solveig Kringelborn, Jonathan Lemalu, Dame Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Karita Mattila, Lisa Milne, Ann Murray, Anna Netrebko, Anne Sofie von Otter, Joan Rodgers, Amanda Roocroft, Michael Schade, Frederica von Stade, Sarah Walker and Bryn Terfel.

He has presented his own series at the Wigmore Hall (a Britten and a Poulenc series and Decade by Decade – 100 years of German Song broadcast by the BBC) and at the Edinburgh Festival (the complete lieder of Hugo Wolf). He has appeared throughout Europe (including London’s Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Royal Opera House; La Scala, Milan; the Chatelet, Paris; the Liceu, Barcelona; Berlin’s Philharmonie and Konzerthaus; Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein), North America (including in New York both Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall), Australia (including the Sydney Opera House) and at the Aix en Provence, Vienna, Edinburgh, Schubertiade, Munich and Salzburg Festivals.

Recording projects have included Schubert, Schumann and English song recitals with Bryn Terfel (for Deutsche Grammophon); Schubert and Strauss recitals with Simon Keenlyside (for EMI); recital recordings with Angela Gheorghiu and Barbara Bonney (for Decca), Magdalena Kozena (for DG), Della Jones (for Chandos), Susan Bullock (for Crear Classics), Solveig Kringelborn (for NMA); Amanda Roocroft (for Onyx); the complete Fauré songs with Sarah Walker and Tom Krause; the complete Britten Folk Songs for Hyperion; the complete Beethoven Folk Songs for Deutsche Grammophon; the complete Poulenc songs for Signum; and Britten Song Cycles as well as Schubert’s Winterreise with Florian Boesch for Onyx.

This season’s engagements include appearances with Simon Keenlyside, Magdalena Kozena, Dorothea Röschmann, Susan Graham, Christopher Maltman, Thomas Oliemanns, Kate Royal, Christiane Karg, Iestyn Davies, Florian Boesch and Anne Schwanewilms.

He was a given an honorary doctorate at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2004, and appointed International Fellow of Accompaniment in 2009. Malcolm was the Artistic Director of the 2011 Leeds Lieder Festival.


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Composer(s)

Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Fauré was a French Romantic 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 Pavane, Requiem, Nocturnes for piano and the songs Après un rêve and Clair de lune. Although his best-known and most accessible compositions are generally his earlier ones, Fauré composed many of his most highly regarded works in his later years, in a more harmonically and melodically complex style. Fauré's 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 Fauré's death,...
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Gabriel Fauré was a French Romantic 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 Pavane, Requiem, Nocturnes for piano and the songs Après un rêve and Clair de lune. Although his best-known and most accessible compositions are generally his earlier ones, Fauré composed many of his most highly regarded works in his later years, in a more harmonically and melodically complex style.
Fauré's 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 Fauré's death, jazz and the atonal music of the Second Viennese School were being heard. During the last twenty years of his life, he suffered from increasing deafness. In contrast with the charm of his earlier music, his works from this period are sometimes elusive and withdrawn in character, and at other times turbulent and impassioned.

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01.
Le papillon et la fleur, Op. 1, No. 1
02:21
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray
02.
Mai, Op. 1, No. 2
02:16
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray
03.
Poème d’un jour, Op. 21: I. Rencontre
02:02
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, John Chest
04.
Poème d’un jour, Op. 21: II. Toujours!
01:12
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, John Chest
05.
Poème d’un jour, Op. 21: III. Adieu
02:29
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, John Chest
06.
Lydia Op. 4, No. 2
03:01
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Iestyn Davies
07.
Tristesse Op. 6, No. 2
02:47
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Iestyn Davies
08.
Dans les ruines d’une abbaye, Op. 2, No. 1
01:51
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, John Chest
09.
Le voyageur Op. 18, No. 2
01:38
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Nigel Cliffe
10.
Sérénade toscane (O tu che dormie riposata stai), Op. 3, No. 2
02:53
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Ben Johnson
11.
Les berceaux, Op. 23, No. 1
02:44
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Lorna Anderson
12.
Chanson du pêcheur (Lamento) Op. 4, No. 1
03:25
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Nigel Cliffe
13.
Vocalise No. 29
02:32
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray
14.
Sylvie, Op. 6, No. 3
02:37
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, John Chest
15.
Après un rêve (Levati sol que la luna e? levata), Op. 7, No. 1
02:56
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray
16.
Vocalise No. 20
01:05
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Lorna Anderson
17.
Aurore, Op. 39, No. 1
02:28
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Janis Kelly
18.
Fleur jetée, Op. 39, No. 2
01:36
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Janis Kelly
19.
Arpège, Op. 76, No. 2
02:28
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Lorna Anderson
20.
Les matelots, Op. 2, No. 2
01:30
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, John Chest
21.
La Fée aux chansons, Op. 27, No. 2
01:48
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Janis Kelly
22.
Nell, Op. 18, No. 1
01:50
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Ben Johnson
23.
Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’, Op. 58: I. Mandoline
01:52
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray
24.
Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’, Op. 58: II. En sourdine
03:11
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray
25.
Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’, Op. 58: III. Green
01:56
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray
26.
Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’, Op. 58: IV. A Clymène
03:13
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray
27.
Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’, Op. 58: V. C’est l’extase
03:13
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Ann Murray
28.
Le Jardin Clos, Op. 106: I. Exaucement
01:11
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Joan Rodgers
29.
Le Jardin Clos, Op. 106: II. Quand tu plonges tes yeux dans mes yeux
01:03
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Joan Rodgers
30.
Le Jardin Clos, Op. 106: III. La messagère
01:46
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Joan Rodgers
31.
Le Jardin Clos, Op. 106: IV. Je me poserai sur ton coeur
02:05
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Joan Rodgers
32.
Le Jardin Clos, Op. 106: V. Dans la nymphée
02:52
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Joan Rodgers
33.
Le Jardin Clos, Op. 106: VI. Dans la pénombre
01:20
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Joan Rodgers
34.
Le Jardin Clos, Op. 106: VII. Il m’est cher, Amour, le bandeau
01:25
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Joan Rodgers
35.
Le Jardin Clos, Op. 106: VIII. Inscription sur le sable
02:23
(Gabriel Fauré) Malcolm Martineau, Joan Rodgers
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