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The Complete Songs of Fauré, Vol. 4

Malcolm Martineau (piano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Isobel Buchanan (soprano), Lorna Anderson (soprano), Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), John Chest (baritone)

The Complete Songs of Fauré, Vol. 4
The concept of the series mixes singers from different generations – all of them British – which provides a vivid palette of colours for the superb pianist Malcolm Martineau to play with. Everybody...

BBC Music Magazine, October 20214 out of 5 stars

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The Complete Songs of Fauré, Vol. 4

Malcolm Martineau (piano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Isobel Buchanan (soprano), Lorna Anderson (soprano), Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), John Chest (baritone)

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The concept of the series mixes singers from different generations – all of them British – which provides a vivid palette of colours for the superb pianist Malcolm Martineau to play with. Everybody...

BBC Music Magazine, October 20214 out of 5 stars

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Contents and tracklist

Fauré: Puisque j'ai ma levre
Work length3:17
Fauré: 2 Songs, Op. 43: No. 1, Noël
Work length2:32
Fauré: En Priere
Work length2:10
Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 8: No. 2, La rançon
Work length2:18
Fauré: 2 Songs, Op. 3: No. 1, Seule!
Work length3:06
John Mark Ainsley, Gabriel Fauré: 2 Songs, Op. 27: No. 1, Chanson d'amour
Work length2:00
Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 5 No. 3, L'absent
Work length3:49
Fauré: 2 Songs, Op. 43: No. 2, Nocturne
Work length2:33
Fauré: 4 Songs, Op. 51: No. 1, Larmes
Work length2:11
Fauré: 2 Songs, Op. 46: No. 1, Les presents
Work length1:56
Fauré: 4 Songs, Op. 51: No. 2, Au cimetiere
Work length4:38
Fauré: La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61
Work length21:26
No. 1. Une sainte en son auréole
Track length2:17
No. 2, Puisque l’aube grandit
Track length1:50
No. 3, La lune blanche luit dans le bois
Track length2:25
No. 4, J'allais par des chemins perfides
Track length1:52
No. 5, J’ai presque peur, en vérité
Track length2:23
No. 6, Avant que tu ne t’en ailles
Track length2:42
No. 7, Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d’été
Track length2:30
No. 8, N’est-ce pas?
Track length2:26
No. 9, L’hiver a cessé
Track length3:01
Fauré: 2 Songs, Op. 83: No. 1, Prison
Work length2:26
Fauré: Vocalise 21: Pleurs d'or, Op. 72
Work length0:58
Fauré: Pleurs d'or Op. 72
Work length2:27
Fauré: Vocalise 9
Work length0:48
Fauré: C'est la paix Op. 114
Work length1:25
Fauré: L'horizon chimérique, Op. 118
Work length7:49
No. 1, La mer est infinie
Track length1:30
No. 2, Je me suis embarqué
Track length2:16
No. 3, Diane Séléné
Track length2:04
No. 4, Vaisseaux, nous vous aurons aimés
Track length1:59

Awards and reviews

October 2021

The concept of the series mixes singers from different generations – all of them British – which provides a vivid palette of colours for the superb pianist Malcolm Martineau to play with. Everybody has something different to offer and there are surprises aplenty.
4 out of 5 stars

September 2021

No matter if Davies’s countertenor voice isn’t anything the composer would have imagined in his music: his elegant artistry in ‘Nocturne’ is among the disc’s best moments.

10th July 2021

[La Bonne Chanson] is the centrepiece, sung with grace, finesse and variety by Kitty Whately…Chest performs Fauré’s final four-song cycle, L’horizon chimérique (1921), with the kind of elegance and cool passion this music demands: a fitting close to an excellent series.
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