Composer: Gabriel Urbain Fauré
Performer: Xavier Phillips, Cédric Tiberghien
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: La Dolce Volta
Catalogue: LDV102
Release: 2023
Size: 1.93 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 109
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante
03. III. Finale. Allegro commodo
04. Élégie in C minor, Op. 24
05. Sérénade, Op. 98
06. Sicilienne, Op. 78
07. Berceuse, Op. 16
08. Romance in A major for cello & piano, Op. 69
09. Papillon, Op. 77
Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 117
10. I. Allegro
11. II. Andante
12. III. Allegro vivo
3 Songs, Op. 7
13. No. 1, Après un rêve (Arr. for Cello and Piano by Pablo Casals)
The music of Gabriel Fauré is at once unclassifiable and inexpressibly beautiful. One must yield to its seductions, savour in it the charm of the unexpected. The cello is the voice of the Fauré mélodie without the words. Its mellowness conceals passion. When Xavier Phillips and Cédric Tiberghien take possession of it, it becomes sensual, incandescent, a bouquet of refined, evergreen harmonies. The Élégie and the Berceuse will never fade, nor will the two late cello sonatas, whose surging vitality is that of a young man of more than seventy!