Faure: Barcarolles

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Cat No: 8553634

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099463423

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: FAURE

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Gabriel Faure(1845 - 1924)Barcarolles(Complete) BarcarolleNo.1 in A minor, Op. 26BarcarolleNo.2 in G major, Op. 41 BarcarolleNo.3 in G flat major, Op. 42BarcarolleNo.4 in A flat major, Op. 44 BarcarolleNo.5 in F sharp minor, Op. 66BarcarolleNo.6 in E flat major, Op. 70BarcarolleNo.7 in D minor, Op. 90 BarcarolleNo.8 in D flat major, Op. 96BarcarolleNo.9 in A minor, Op. 101 BarcarolleNo.10 in A minor, Op. 104, No.2BarcarolleNo.11 in G minor, Op. 105 BarcarolleNo.12 in E flat major, Op. 106bisBarcarolleNo.13 in C major, Op. 116 Ballade in Fsharp major, Op. 19 (Original version for piano solo) The sixth andyoungest child of a father with some aristocratic connections, a formerteacher, employed in the educational inspectorate and then as director of ateachers' training college, Gabriel Faure was encouraged by his family in hisearly musical ambitions. His professional training, designed to allow him acareer as a choirrnaster, was at the Ecole Niedermeyer in Paris, where, by goodfortune, he met Saint-Saens, who taught the piano at the school. This was thebeginning of a relationship that lasted until the death of Saint-Saens in 1921. Faurecompleted his studies at the Ecole Niedermeyer in 1865 and the following yeartook up an appointment as organist at the church of St Sauveur in Rennes, turning hisattention increasingly, during four years of this provincial exile, tocomposition. After similar less important appointments in Paris, in 1871 hebecame assistant organist at St Sulpice, later moving to the Madeleine asdeputy to Saint-Saens and subsequently as choirmaster, when Theodore Duboissucceeded Saint-Saens in 1877. Marriage in 1883 and the birth of two sonsbrought financial responsibilities that Faure met by his continued employmentat the Madeleine and by teaching. At the same time he wrote a large number ofsongs, while remaining, as always, intensely critical of his own work,particularly with regard to compositions on a larger scale. The lastdecade of the nineteenth century brought Faure more public recognition. In 1892he became inspector of French provincial conservatories and four years laterprincipal organist at the Madeleine, in the same year finding, at last,employment as teacher of composition at the Conservatoire, the way now open tohim after the death of the old director Ambroise Thomas, who had found Fauretoo much of a modernist for such a position. His association with theConservatoire, where his pupils over the years included Ravel, Charles Koechlin,Georges Enescu and Nadia Boulanger, led, in 1905, to his appointment asdirector, in the aftermath of the scandal that had denied the Prix de Rome toRavel. He remained in this position until 1920, his time for compositioninitially limited by administrative responsibilities, although he was laterable to devote himself more fully to this, adding yet again to the repertoireof French song, with chamber music and works for piano. His musical languagebridged a gap between th
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