The appeal of Gabriel Fauré's music is difficult to capture in a program devoted exclusively to the composer, but pianist Louis Lortie has pulled it off here. The trick is to present an intimate program that would have held together in the small venues for which Fauré intended his music. Lortie writes that "this album purposely travels through Fauré's various creative periods," and that's part of it: Fauré and his contemporaries would not have discarded his earlier music in recital. Consider the Pavane in F sharp minor, Op. ...
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The appeal of Gabriel Fauré's music is difficult to capture in a program devoted exclusively to the composer, but pianist Louis Lortie has pulled it off here. The trick is to present an intimate program that would have held together in the small venues for which Fauré intended his music. Lortie writes that "this album purposely travels through Fauré's various creative periods," and that's part of it: Fauré and his contemporaries would not have discarded his earlier music in recital. Consider the Pavane in F sharp minor, Op. 50, so often presented as a kind of glassed-in delicacy. Here it's something else entirely: a moment of stasis from which the subsequent pieces unfold as if in a dance. Central to the program are the three Barcarolles, Nos. 5, 6, and 7, again not put together, but placed in contrast to the works that surround them, each with a different treatment of the basic gondolier inspiration. Beyond the intelligently structured program is Lortie's wonderfully restrained playing in the...
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