Belle Epoque: A Portrait of Gabriel Faure

Catalog Number: ABC4763423
Label: ABC Classics
Format: CD

Available: 5
Price: $16.99

Categories: Instrumental Music
Classical Periods: 20th Century, Romantic

Composers: Andre Messager, Gabriel Fauré
Performers: Emily Kilpatrick, Roy Howat

Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)

Belle Epoque: A Portrait of Gabriel Faure

Roy Howat, piano

Faure's piano music is utterly captivating in its elegance, lyricism and expressive power. Classically graceful, passionately Romantic, boldly innovative, at times even cheekily mischievous, Faure is never less than sublime. UK-based pianist Roy Howat has devoted his considerable talent and scholarship to the music of Gabriel Faure, entering into the spirit of La Belle Epoque as he breathes new life into these jewels of the piano repertoire, some recorded here for the first time.

	Track Listing	Time
	CD One
1	Barcarolle No. 6, Op. 70	3:28
2	Nocturne No. 6, Op. 63	7:40
3	Pavane, Op. 50 (arr. Roy Howat and Wendy Hiscocks)	4:11
4	Theme et variations, Op. 73	12:44
5	Barcarolle No. 5, Op. 66	5:49
6	Nocturne No. 1, Op. 33 No. 1	6:00
7	Mazurka, Op. 32	5:54
8	Barcarolle No. 7, Op. 90	3:00
9	Nocturne No. 9, Op. 97	3:11
10	Barcarolle No. 8, Op. 96	3:27
11	Nocturne No. 12, Op. 107	5:14
12-14	Gabriel Faure and Andre Messager (1853-1929) Souvenirs de Bayreuth (Quadrille on popular motifs from Wagner's Ring)	4:37
17	Faure: Air de danse from Caligula, Op. 52 Premier recording of original piano duet	1:58
	CD Two
1-6	Dolly, Op. 56	13:05
7	Nocturne No. 4, Op. 36	6:00
8	Piece en forme de Mazurka (Premiere recording)	1:56
9	Prelude (Premiere recording)	0:24
10-17	Pieces breves, Op. 84	15:32
18	Nocturne No. 5, Op. 37	6:48
19	Sicilienne, Op. 78	3:08
20	Nocturne No. 7, Op. 74	7:03
21	Barcarolle No. 4, Op. 44	3:24
22	Nocturne No. 10, Op. 99	4:11
23	Nocturne No. 13, Op. 119	6:18