Hannes Minnaar
Piano Music (Reissue)
- Type CD
- Label Challenge Classics
- UPC 0608917292121
- Catalog number CC 72921
- Release date 03 June 2022
About the album
Night music, water music Thirteen Nocturnes and as many Barcarolles form the core of the collected output of Gabriel Urbain Fauré (1845-1924) for the piano. Night-time meditations, then, along with inspiration drawn from rippling water (the origins of the barcarolle lie in the songs sung by Venetian gondoliers and the word itself comes from the Italian ‘barca’, a boat). Along with some Impromptus, Préludes and other works, one might rapidly gain the impression of a delightful collection of salon music, whose titles may actually display the influence of Chopin (Fauré was even to write a Mazurka). But this music is so very much more than pretty salon music. In the intimacy of these genres, Fauré succeeded time and again in nothing short of exposing his very soul. And the French composer’s style is entirely his own – original and personal – from the first note to the last.
Fauré’s career started off like that of an outsider. At the age of just nine, he moved from Pamiers (in the shadows of the Pyrenees in the south of France) to Paris to attend lessons at the École Niedermeyer there – an education based on church music that his parents felt more appropriate than the official Conservatoire. Among his teachers was Camille Saint-Saëns, who was to prove important to the younger man throughout his life as a mentor and friend. After graduating, Fauré worked as organist and choirmaster at a number of churches in Paris and elsewhere. He also taught and composed – mostly chamber music and songs, genres that were considered to be fairly insignificant in France at the time (in fact only composers of opera were taken seriously). His music was only appreciated in fairly limited circles and the composer suffered regularly from bouts of depression. He also taught at the Conservatoire from 1892, where his students included Maurice Ravel and George Enescu. He was appointed Director of the Conservatoire in 1905; this improved his reputation significantly but left him little time for composition. It was around this time that problems started to emerge with his hearing. As well as experiencing increasing difficulty in hearing high and low frequencies, sounds and intervals also became distorted for him. He resigned in 1920, due his deteriorating health, and died some four years later.
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11Nocturne No. 1 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 33 No. 1 Lento – Un poco più mosso ma non tanto – Tempo I
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12Barcarolle No. 3 in G-Flat Major, Op. 42 Andante quasi allegretto
07:24 -
13Thème et variations in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 73 Thème andante moderato
01:50 -
14Thème et variations in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 73 Variation I: Lo stesso tempo
00:54 -
15Thème et variations in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 73 Variation II: Più mosso
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16Thème et variations in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 73 Variation III: Un poco più mosso
00:38 -
17Thème et variations in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 73 Variation IV: Lo stesso tempo
01:01 -
18Thème et variations in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 73 Variation V: Un poco più mosso
00:39 -
19Thème et variations in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 73 Variation VI: Molto più moderato
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110Thème et variations in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 73 Variation VII: Allegretto moderato
00:54 -
111Thème et variations in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 73 Variation VIII: Andante molto moderato
01:41 -
112Thème et variations in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 73 Variation IX: Quasi adagio
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113Thème et variations in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 73 Variation X: Allegro vivo
01:07 -
114Thème et variations in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 73 Variation XI: Andante molto moderato
02:02 -
115Nocturne No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 74 Molto lento – Un poco più mosso – Tempo I – Allegro – Molto lento – Un poco più mosso
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116Impromptu No. 5 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 102 Allegro vivo
02:05 -
117Nine Preludes, Op. 103 No. 1 in D-flat Major Andante molto moderato
03:42 -
118Nine Preludes, Op. 103 No. 2 in C-sharp Minor Allegro
02:15 -
119Nine Preludes, Op. 103 No. 3 in G Minor Andante
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120Nine Preludes, Op. 103 No. 4 in F Major Allegretto moderato
01:50 -
121Nine Preludes, Op. 103 No. 5 in D Minor Allegro
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122Nine Preludes, Op. 103 No. 6 in E-flat Minor Andante
02:46 -
123Nine Preludes, Op. 103 No. 7 in A Major Andante moderato
02:30 -
124Nine Preludes, Op. 103 No. 8 in C Minor Allegro
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125Nine Preludes, Op. 103 No. 9 in E Minor Adagio
02:57 -
126Barcarolle No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op. 106bis Allegretto giocoso
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127Nocturne No. 13 in B Minor, Op. 119 Andante – Allegro – Tempo I
07:41 -
128Encore: from 3 Romances sans paroles, Op. 17 No. 3 in A-flat Major Andante moderato
02:08
Isabelle van Keulen en Hannes Minnaar in concert: Beethoven Sonata cycle!
03-11-2015
All the Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Violin performed by Isabelle van Keulen and Hannes Minnaar in a three concert cycle this season in the Haarlem Philharmonie! Thursday November 5th the first concert in the series!
In this first concert of the cycle the Sonatas for Violin and Piano nos. 1,5 & 7 will be played
Thusrday November 5: 20.15 hours in the Philharmonie (Kleine Zaal) in Haarlem.
The next concerts in this ...