Faure Collard Dumay - Chamber Music 2 (17 tracks) +Album Reviews

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Faure, Collard, Dumay
Chamber Music 2
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15: Allegro molto moderato
2. Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15: Scherzo. Allegro vivace
3. Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15: Adagio
4. Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15: Allegro molto
5. Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45: I. Allegro molto moderato
6. Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45: II. Allegro molto
7. Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45: III. Adagio non troppo
8. Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45: IV. Allegro molto
9. Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89: Molto moderato
Track Listings (8) - Disc #2
1. Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89: Adagio
2. Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 115: Allegro moderato
3. Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 115: Allegro vivo
4. Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 115: Andante moderato
5. Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 115: Allegro molto
6. String Quartet in E minor, Op. 121: Allegro moderato
7. String Quartet in E minor, Op. 121: Andante
8. String Quartet in E minor, Op. 121: Allegro

CD Details

All Artists: Faure, Collard, Dumay, Pasquier, Lodeon
Title: Chamber Music 2
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: EMI Classics Imports
Release Date: 7/10/2001
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 724356926424

CD Reviews

Superb performances of Faure's finest music.

Miles D. Moore | Alexandria, VA USA | 10/14/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Because he wrote relatively little for orchestra and wasn't a bold innovator on the level of Debussy, Gabriel Faure has never quite received the public acclaim he deserves. There's much more to him than the Pavane, or even the Requiem. His best work throbs with a gentle yet impassioned lyricism, saved from sentimentality by the occasional, acid touch of dissonance in the harmony. Faure's musical language is that of a sophisticated yet kind man with an urgent sense of the bittersweet nature of life. That worldly-wise, poetic lyricism is heard to best advantage in his chamber music. A group of first-rate French musicians--including pianist Jean-Philippe Collard, violinist Augustin Dumay, violist Bruno Pasquier, cellist Frederic Lodeon, and the Parrenin Quartet--recorded all of Faure's chamber music in a two-volume set in the late 1970s. Volume II contains what are probably Faure's most beloved chamber pieces, the piano quartets and quintets. For my money, the opening movement of the Quintet No. 2, Op. 115, is the most beautiful music Faure ever wrote, and it is hard to imagine a better performance of it than that given by Collard and the Parrenin Quartet on this disc. Anyone with even a passing interest in French chamber music should acquire this set."