Fauré: The Complete Barcarolles & Trois Romances Sans Paroles

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Fauré's piano music is at last emerging in its full measure of energy and brilliance. Charles Owen buys enthusiastically into this truer picture of the music...On the technical front Owen is... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 16th May 2011
Catalogue No: AV2240
Label: Avie
Length: 63 minutes

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Fauré: Barcarolle No. 1, Op. 26 in A Minor: Allegretto moderato

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Fauré: Barcarolle No. 2, Op. 41 in G Major: Allegretto quasi Allegro

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Charles Owen

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 3, Op. 42 in G-Flat Major: Andante quasi Allegretto

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Charles Owen

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 4 in A flat major Op. 44

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Charles Owen

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 5, Op. 66 in F-Sharp Minor: Allegretto moderato

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Charles Owen

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 6, Op. 70 in E-Flat Major: Allegretto vivo

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Charles Owen

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 7, Op. 90 in D Minor: Allegretto moderato

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Charles Owen

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 8, Op. 96 in D-Flat Major: Allegretto Moderato

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Charles Owen

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 9, Op. 101 in A Minor

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Charles Owen

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 10 in A minor Op. 104 No. 2

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Charles Owen

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 11 in G minor Op. 105

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Charles Owen

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 12 in E flat major Op. 106

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Charles Owen

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 13 in C major Op. 116

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Fauré: Romances sans paroles, Op. 17

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No. 1 in A-Flat Major, Andante quasi allegretto

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No. 2 in A Minor, Allegro molto

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No. 3 in A-Flat Major, Andante moderato

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Following a critically acclaimed recording of Fauré’s Complete Nocturnes (AV2133), Charles Owen surveys the composer’s Complete Barcarolles, uniquely coupled with Trois Romances sans paroles.

Pianist Charles Owens follows a critically acclaimed release of Fauré’s popular Nocturnes (AV2133) with a relative rarity – a complete survey of the composer’s Barcarolles uniquely coupled with Trois Romances sans paroles, Fauré’s first published works for piano. The Barcarolles straddle the turn of the 20th century and span a four-decade period, from 1880 – 1921. The works’ dedicatees were a veritable roll call of Parisian musical elite. Though written and published separately, they hang together well through their combination of mystery, humanity and inner poetry. Yet it is a rare pianist who plays all thirteen, a bill that Charles Owen lives up to brilliantly.

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September 2011

Fauré's piano music is at last emerging in its full measure of energy and brilliance. Charles Owen buys enthusiastically into this truer picture of the music...On the technical front Owen is absolutely secure, with fine observation of the music's often multiple layering

September 2011

Owen is the least insistent or interventionalist of pianists. He never invests the music with undue weight or significance. His performances glide gracefully, often in near strict tempo on their own momentum, quite without distortion or idiosyncrasy.

September 2011

Owens gives beautifully measured accounts of these charming works, enjoying the lavishness of the writing but carefully teasing out the all-important melodies with a silver spoon. He makes enterprising use of the pedals, and the colour evinced in Nos. 1, 3 and 6 are particularly charismatic.

The Independent on Sunday 3rd July 2011

These are the urbane descendants of Chopin's pianistic brilliants, gentlemanly and understated. Charles Owen's beautifully judged and articulated performance deftly reveals the intricacy of Fauré's craft without loss of line, from the seemingly carefree balletic shimmer of the 1885 G flat major to the darker harmonies of the 1915 E flat major.

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