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Christian Poltéra… phrases sensitively and makes the most of the composer's dynamic markings… Kathryn Stott is an ideal partner, managing her pedalling levels to produce a variety of textures...reinforc[ing]... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Dec 2007
Catalogue No: CHAN10447
Label: Chandos
Length: 65 minutes

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Fauré: Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 109

Work length19:13

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Christian Poltéra, Kathryn Stott
Recorded: 17-19 May 2007
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

I. Allegro

Track length5:17

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II. Andante

Track length7:31

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III. Finale. Allegro commodo

Track length6:25

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Fauré: Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 117

Work length19:08

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Christian Poltéra, Kathryn Stott
Recorded: 17-19 May 2007
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

I. Allegro

Track length6:53

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II. Andante

Track length7:20

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III. Allegro vivo

Track length4:55

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Fauré: Nocturne No. 13 in B minor, Op. 119

Work length8:03

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Kathryn Stott
Recorded: 17-19 May 2007
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120

Work length18:48

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Kathryn Stott, Christian Poltéra, Priya Mitchell
Recorded: 17-19 May 2007
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

I. Allegro ma non troppo

Track length5:46

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II. Andantino

Track length8:35

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III. Allegro vivo

Track length4:27

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The Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 109 is a fascinating and unsettling product of those dark days of the First World War. Fauré’s youngest son was in the army and it is not hard to hear something of his father’s anxiety in the sonata. The Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 117 was written between March and November 1921 and this happier time is reflected in more contented music. Fauré’s friend Vincent d’Indy, spoke for many when he complimented his fellow composer on the sheer ‘youthfulness’ of this music: ‘plus the mastery of maturity. And it’s so beautiful!’ These works are here joined by Nocturne No. 13 in B minor, Op. 119, completed after the death of Fauré’s closest friend, Camille Saint-Saëns. It was Fauré’s last solo piano work and completed the second of two great work cycles, the Barcarolles and Nocturnes, which between them chart the course of Fauré’s composing life and contain some of the composer’s most intimate thoughts. The Thirteenth Nocturne is as well the summation of the two sets. ‘Its grip is so powerful’, wrote the great French pianist Yvonne Lefébure, ‘that there is no place for rational explanation…, it is the only example of a work in which not a single note could be changed or removed’. Completing the disc is the Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120, which despite its moments of drama unfolds with an easy-flowing serenity.

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Christian Poltéra… phrases sensitively and makes the most of the composer's dynamic markings… Kathryn Stott is an ideal partner, managing her pedalling levels to produce a variety of textures...reinforc[ing] her position as one of the finest Fauré interpreters of her generation”

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