Faure: Orchestral Music

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Cat No: 8553360

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099436021

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: FAURE

Description
Gabriel Urbain Fauré was born in France in May 1845, and at an early age pleased his father by showing an aptitude towards music. He was sent the Ecole Neidermeyer in Paris, where he found the education thorough but somewhat unrewarding. During his time there Saint-Saens became the piano teacher and it was the stimulus he needed, for here was musician who was saying something new. It was to be a lasting friendship.His discovery of the music of Wagner was to be the other major influence on his music, and throughout much of his life he attempted to write music on a large scale. The appointment as organist at a church in Rennes in 1866, isolated him in provincial France, and on his return to Paris he could not obtain a major appointment. The situation was compounded by marriage and the birth of two sons, such financial commitments requiring his free time being devoted to teaching. It may have been a slight exaggeration, but his desire to compose now had to be restricted to school holidays.He was already in his late forties when some rather unexpected appointments led to his name coming before the Paris Conservatoire as a composition tutor, and among his pupils were Ravel, Koechlin, Enescu and Nadia Boulenger. It was the public scandal that surrounded Ravel's failure to win the Prix de Rome that was the catalyst for sweeping changes at the Conservatoire, and Fauré was suddenly thrust into the position of Director. It was strange that this mild mannered man should have been so instrumental in the changes that followed, and shaped French music to an extent that affects music of today.He held the position for 15 years, retiring in 1920. Towards the latter end of his time at the Conservatoire he was able to devote more time to composition, though strangely enough his retirement did not see any major upsurge in new works.His catalogue of works includes operas, oratorios (including the famous Requiem), orchestral scores, and an amount of chamber music and songs.The earliest work on the disc is the Berceuse from 1879, composed for piano and violin. There appears to have been no particular reason to write the work, and it is a short and romantic score lasting little over three minutes. He later orchestrated the score, its high opus number indicating late publication.The Dolly Suite, a work in six movements, was written between 1893 and 1897, for piano duet. Dolly was the pet name for Hélène Bardac, the young daughter of the singer, Emma Bardac. Each movement is a cameo of something in her young life, from a cradle-song to the picture of Dolly's Garden. The score has become better known in the orchestration by Henri Rabaud.That work comes from the period when Fauré was at last being recognised. Also in 1893 he was asked to write the incidental music to Shylock, Edmond Haraucourt's French view of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Strangely enough, with the changed title in mind, it is the lovers who take centre-stage, so
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