FAURÉ The Complete Songs, Vol 2
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Composer or Director: Gabriel Fauré
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Signature
Magazine Review Date: 07/2017
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 68
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: SIGCD472
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Rêve d'amour (wds. Hugo: c1862) |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer John Chest, Baritone Malcolm Martineau, Piano |
(L')Aurore |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer Janis Kelly, Soprano Malcolm Martineau, Piano |
Tarentelle |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer Janis Kelly, Soprano Lorna Anderson, Soprano Malcolm Martineau, Piano |
Puisqu'ici-bas |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer Janis Kelly, Soprano Lorna Anderson, Soprano Malcolm Martineau, Piano |
(3) Songs, Movement: Aubade (wds. L. Pomey: c1873) |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Ben Johnson, Tenor Gabriel Fauré, Composer Malcolm Martineau, Piano |
Vocalises for voice and piano, Movement: No 7 |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Ann Murray, Mezzo soprano Gabriel Fauré, Composer Malcolm Martineau, Piano |
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 3, Barcarolle (wds. Monnier: 1873) |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer Malcolm Martineau, Piano Nigel Cliffe, Baritone |
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Notre amour (wds. Silvestre: c1879) |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer Lorna Anderson, Soprano Malcolm Martineau, Piano |
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 3, Le secret (wds. Silvestre: 1880-81) |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer Lorna Anderson, Soprano Malcolm Martineau, Piano |
(4) Songs, Movement: No. 3, Le Pays des rêves (wds. Silvestre) |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer Janis Kelly, Soprano Malcolm Martineau, Piano |
Shylock |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer Malcolm Martineau, Piano Thomas Oliemans, Baritone |
Vocalises for voice and piano, Movement: No 22 |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer Lorna Anderson, Soprano Malcolm Martineau, Piano |
(3) Songs |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer Malcolm Martineau, Piano Thomas Oliemans, Baritone |
(2) Songs, Movement: Le plus doux chemin |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer Iestyn Davies, Countertenor Malcolm Martineau, Piano |
(2) Songs, Movement: Le ramier |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer Malcolm Martineau, Piano Thomas Oliemans, Baritone |
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Hymne (wds. Baudelaire: c1870) |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer John Chest, Baritone Malcolm Martineau, Piano |
(La) Chanson d'Eve |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer Malcolm Martineau, Piano Sarah Connolly, Mezzo soprano |
Author: Tim Ashley
Two singers new to the series are heard in the main works. Sarah Connolly’s performance of La chanson d’Ève is arguably the finest since Dawn Upshaw’s – ecstatic yet restrained, and superbly controlled, both dynamically and emotionally, as Eve’s awareness of the imperfections of Eden begins to register. Baritone Thomas Oliemans – dark-voiced, very elegant – tackles Shylock and Op 85. The Shylock Serenade blends swagger with sensuality: the ‘Madrigal’, addressed to Portia by the Prince of Aragon, is rightly more artfully poised and formal. His reined-in passion impresses in Op 85, where the Symbolist texts can seem dangerously overwrought.
The remaining singers are all familiar from the first disc. There’s accomplished duetting from Janis Kelly and Lorna Anderson: elsewhere, Kelly’s ability to sustain high, hovering lines is heard to advantage in the exquisite ‘Le pays des rêves’, while Anderson, with her warm middle registers, does wonders with the reflective ‘Le secret’. John Chest, whose singing was a real revelation in Vol 1, is similarly excellent here. Ben Johnson and Iestyn Davies only get one song each, though both are highlights. Martineau’s understanding of Fauré’s piano-writing, in which less means more and virtuosity is avoided in favour of nuance, remains impeccable.
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