Est 1923

FAURÉ Songs for Bass and Piano

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Gabriel Fauré

Genre:

Vocal

Label: Toccata Classics

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 59

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: TOCC0268

TOCC0268. FAURÉ Songs for Bass and Piano

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Hymne (wds. Baudelaire: c1870) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 2, La rançon (wds. Baudelaire: c1871) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 1, Chant d'automne (wds. Baudelaire: c1871) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(3) Songs, Movement: Tristesse (wds. T. Gautier: c1873) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 3, L'Absent (wds. Hugo (1871) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(2) Songs, Movement: Le parfum impérissable (wds. L. de Lisle) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(2) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Sérénade toscane (wds. anon, trans Buss) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 1, Après un rêve (wds. anon, trans Bussine Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(2) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Les Matelots (wds. Gautier: c1870) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(2) Songs, Movement: La chanson du pêcheur (wds. T. Gautier: ?1872) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(5) Mélodies, Movement: No. 1, Mandoline Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(5) Mélodies, Movement: No. 2, En sourdine Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(2) Songs, Movement: Prison (wds. P. Verlaine) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(3) Songs, Movement: Dans la fôret de septembre (wds. C. Mendès) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
Tristesse d'Olympio Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(4) Songs, Movement: No. 1, Aurore (wds. Silvestre) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(3) Songs, Movement: La fleur qui va l'eau (wds. C. Mendès) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(4) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Fleur jetée (wds. Silvestre) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(Le) Don silencieux Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(2) Songs, Movement: Nocturne Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(2) Songs, Movement: No. 1, Les présents (wds. de L'Isle Adam) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 1, Au bord de l'eau (wds. Prudhomme: 1875) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 3, Ici-bas (wds. Prudhomme: c1874) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
(3) Songs, Movement: Le Voyageur (wds. A. Silvestre: ?1878) Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Jared Schwartz, Bass
Roy Howat, Piano
This is a recording unique unto itself, so comparisons with the dozens of other interpretations of Fauré’s songs already available would not be especially instructive. The factor that puts the disc in a special category is that the American singer Jared Schwartz is a bass, albeit a bass with an outstanding flexibility and range. Fauré’s songs tend to be assigned to higher voices, and this seems to be the first time that a bass has featured on a whole disc of them. The only song of these 25 that is not claimed as a first is the Théophile Gautier setting ‘Chanson du pêcheur (Lamento)’, presumably because it appears on a CD of mixed French repertoire entitled ‘Rencontres: Mélodies françaises’ by the Italian bass Carlo Colombara (Dynamic).

But there is an added rarity in the fact that Schwartz sings two items in the original Tuscan rather than the customary French. The fact that these include probably Fauré’s most famous song, ‘Après un rêve’ – or ‘Levati, sol’ – might raise the odd eyebrow, but Schwartz, as throughout this programme, has a feeling for colour and mood. From his diction you can tell that he is not French, nor indeed Tuscan, but he compensates with mellifluous lines and a malleability of timbre. All the songs suit his musicality well, and some – such as the angry ‘Fleur jetée’ and the introspective ‘L’absent’ – seem positively to gain from Schwartz’s intensity. Roy Howat, on whose new edition of Fauré’s songs this selection is based, is a stylistically perceptive, sensitive accompanist.

TOCC0268. FAURÉ Songs for Bass and Piano

FAURÉ Songs for Bass and Piano

(3) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Hymne (wds. Baudelaire: c1870)

(3) Songs, Movement: No. 2, La rançon (wds. Baudelaire: c1871)

(3) Songs, Movement: No. 1, Chant d'automne (wds. Baudelaire: c1871)

(3) Songs, Movement: Tristesse (wds. T. Gautier: c1873)

(3) Songs, Movement: No. 3, L'Absent (wds. Hugo (1871)

(2) Songs, Movement: Le parfum impérissable (wds. L. de Lisle)

(2) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Sérénade toscane (wds. anon, trans Buss)

(3) Songs, Movement: No. 1, Après un rêve (wds. anon, trans Bussine

(2) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Les Matelots (wds. Gautier: c1870)

(2) Songs, Movement: La chanson du pêcheur (wds. T. Gautier: ?1872)

(5) Mélodies, Movement: No. 1, Mandoline

(5) Mélodies, Movement: No. 2, En sourdine

(2) Songs, Movement: Prison (wds. P. Verlaine)

(3) Songs, Movement: Dans la fôret de septembre (wds. C. Mendès)

Tristesse d'Olympio

(4) Songs, Movement: No. 1, Aurore (wds. Silvestre)

(3) Songs, Movement: La fleur qui va l'eau (wds. C. Mendès)

(4) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Fleur jetée (wds. Silvestre)

(Le) Don silencieux

(2) Songs, Movement: Nocturne

(2) Songs, Movement: No. 1, Les présents (wds. de L'Isle Adam)

(3) Songs, Movement: No. 1, Au bord de l'eau (wds. Prudhomme: 1875)

(3) Songs, Movement: No. 3, Ici-bas (wds. Prudhomme: c1874)

(3) Songs, Movement: Le Voyageur (wds. A. Silvestre: ?1878)

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