Fauré Piano Quintets Nos 1 and 2
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Composer or Director: Gabriel Fauré
Label: CPO
Magazine Review Date: 10/1997
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 62
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CPO999 357-2
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Quintet for Piano and Strings No. 1 |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Auryn Qt Gabriel Fauré, Composer Peter Orth, Piano |
| Quintet for Piano and Strings No. 2 |
Gabriel Fauré, Composer
Auryn Qt Gabriel Fauré, Composer Peter Orth, Piano |
Author: Bryce Morrison
These sensitive, strong, and finely integrated performances directly challenge Domus’s Gramophone Award-winning recording. Firstly, CPO’s sound and balance are exemplary so that every strand of Faure’s luminous intricacy is audible and second, Peter Orth (a former winner of the Naumburg Competition) is able to tap a virtuoso resource (try the Second Quartet’s Allegro vivo taken at a dazzling and precise presto) less evident in Susan Tomes’s admirable and musicianly playing. More generally, Orth and the Auryn Quartet’s mastery of a notoriously elusive idiom is unfaltering. Sample the opening of the First Quintet where one of Faure’s most elegiac themes is launched, as it were, in a sparkling nimbus of light, or the opening of the finale’s exquisite archaic dance, developed with such ingenuity and urgency, and you will hear playing of an unfaltering ‘line’ and sensitivity. Again, in the Second Quintet, this ensemble is attuned to every demand, whether in the Allegro’s energetic opening or in the Andante moderato where, at 6'32'', Faure’s stellar harmony hints at “the still point of the turning world”.
The insert-note discusses Faure’s neglect at some length, attributing such indifference to a Gallic subtlety and reserve that become incomprehensible when removed from home ground. This outstanding issue by an American, but Berlin-based, pianist and a German quartet should do much to erase such misconceptions.'
The insert-note discusses Faure’s neglect at some length, attributing such indifference to a Gallic subtlety and reserve that become incomprehensible when removed from home ground. This outstanding issue by an American, but Berlin-based, pianist and a German quartet should do much to erase such misconceptions.'
Fauré Piano Quintets Nos 1 and 2
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