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What your Top 5 Favorites from Fauré? I will sit this one out a bit since I'm still discovering the composer's oeuvre.
Requiem
Cello Sonata no.1 (uncharacteristic)
Piano Quartet no.1
Ballade for Piano & Orchestra
- as for the 5th work, I am less certain. I guess the 2nd Piano Quartet would somehow be against the spirit of the poll.
Quote from: Turner on February 14, 2016, 10:10:22 AM
Requiem
Cello Sonata no.2 (uncharacteristic)
Piano Quartet no.1
Ballade for Piano & Orchestra
- as for the 5th work, I am less certain. I guess the 2nd Piano Quartet would be against the spirit of the poll.
Excellent list, Turner and, no, choosing
Piano Quartet No. 2 would in no way be against the spirit of this thread, especially since these are your own choices. Now, if I had put some kind of stipulation or regulation on the thread, that would would be a different matter completely of course. :)
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 14, 2016, 10:13:19 AM
Excellent list, Turner and, no, choosing Piano Quartet No. 2 would in no way be against the spirit of this thread, especially since these are your own choices. Now, if I had put some kind of stipulation or regulation on the thread, that would would be a different matter completely of course. :)
Good to know :). The two piano quartets have always been my favourite works by him.
Will have to correct myself, though - I mean the 1st Cello Sonata, not the second; the first is unusually abrupt and "Russian"-sounding in its style, almost Shostakovich-like, for Faure.
Lots of beauty in his output, off the top ..
Nocturne 13
La chanson d'Ève
Le jardin clos
Requiem
Pavane
Requiem
Piano Quintet No. 2
String Quartet
Nocturnes
La chanson d'Ève
It was really hard to choose a single song cycle.
Oh, golly.
Piano Quintet No.1
Violin Sonata No.1
Nocturne No.6
Barcarolle No.5
Piano Quintet No.2
These are gut reactions without having listened to anything for a while. It's been too long for the songs, perhaps I'd go for Mirages as the set I remember being most taken by.