Fauré: Horizons
Pierre Fouchenneret, Simon Zaoui, Raphaël Merlin and David Lefort
These young French musicians clearly have these works deeply ingrained in their musical thinking, and that familiarity shows in the total lack of preciousness in their performances...There’s...
Fauré: Horizons
Pierre Fouchenneret, Simon Zaoui, Raphaël Merlin and David Lefort
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These young French musicians clearly have these works deeply ingrained in their musical thinking, and that familiarity shows in the total lack of preciousness in their performances...There’s...
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Designed as an immersion in the chamber music of Gabriel Fauré, this double album recorded by the pianist Simon Zaoui with Pierre Fouchenneret on the violin, Raphael Merlin on the cello and the tenor David Lefort, unlock the secrets of Fauré’s late style. In spite of their density, if not hermetic at the end of his life, the French composer's scores still retain the charm of his youthful works where his melodic genius was more direct.
If Fauré knew the German composers, his expression is of a different sort. No extravagant effusion in his music but an intimate emotion that is perfectly restored here. Around the pianist Simon Zaoui, who subtly underlines the serious gravity of the last three Nocturnes, the musicians perform Fauré’s sonatas, trios and the autumnal melodies of L'Horizon chimérique.
Contents and tracklist
- Raphaël Merlin (cello), Simon Zaoui (piano), Pierre Fouchenneret (violin)
- Pierre Fouchenneret (violin), Simon Zaoui (piano)
- Pierre Fouchenneret (violin), Simon Zaoui (piano)
- Raphaël Merlin (cello), Simon Zaoui (piano)
- Pierre Fouchenneret (violin), Simon Zaoui (piano)
- Simon Zaoui (piano)
- Simon Zaoui (piano), Raphaël Merlin (cello)
- Simon Zaoui (piano), David Lefort (tenor)
- Simon Zaoui (piano), Raphaël Merlin (cello)
- Pierre Fouchenneret (violin), Simon Zaoui (piano)
- Simon Zaoui (piano), Raphaël Merlin (cello)
- Pierre Fouchenneret (violin), Simon Zaoui (piano)
- Simon Zaoui (piano)
- Pierre Fouchenneret (violin), Simon Zaoui (piano)
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Awards and reviews
6th April 2018
These young French musicians clearly have these works deeply ingrained in their musical thinking, and that familiarity shows in the total lack of preciousness in their performances...There’s never a lack of muscularity, but it’s always kept on the right side of over-assertiveness. The warm closeness of the sound, meanwhile, brings out the subtleties in the way in which the instrumentalists colour every phrase.
13th April 2018
[Fauré needs] precision and dignity, shyness and rapture, a mastery of the long evolving line. With those ingredients, Pierre Fouchenneret (violin), Simon Zaoui (piano) and Raphaël Merlin (cello), with a cameo appearance by the tenor David Lefort, rarely disappoint.
