Gabriel Fauré (Faure)

[Madiel]

Sounds utterly delusional.

[Florestan]

Sounds utterly delusional.

Wait! Mysterious Requiems, secret codes hidden in a keyboard, manuscripts buried in the fields, evil composers --- that's a Dan Brown novel, actually (it even has his trademark historical ignorance: the first performance of Verdi's Requiem actually took place in 1874, not in 1869).

[Mandryka]

I wonder if you'd enjoy this @Herman -  it's spiders webs and rainbows.

[Karl Henning]

Giorgio reviews Marc-André Hamelin's Fauré

[Mandryka]

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/36/000166263.pdf

The above is the booklet for Lucas Debargue's complete piano music. Straight away you have to make two adjustments to the recording. First the order is order of composition  (I think) - so you don't get a continuous sequence of barcarolles or nocturnes. And second the piano (something called Opus 102 by Stephen Paulello) sounds like no other. The booklet is interesting, with some pointers for further reading which I hope to persue. The sound quality is strange - and is lovely in quiet music, not so sure when the music is louder where on the big quads it sounds a little bit metallic (first reaction, so don't take it too seriously, but I thought I'd mention it, and of course it could be a realistic feature of the instrument) On the basis of a handful of barcarolles the playing seems to have the lightness, the gossamer lightness, which I want.


Anyway, the bottom line is that I feel rather enthusiastic about this one, and I kind of regret not going to see him play a few weeks ago. But it needs time to form a sound judgement obvs.

[Madiel]

It's by opus number.

Which in this case generally does correspond to order of composition with some minor exceptions.