(Voice and Piano)
SKU:
HL.48186452
Composed
by Gabriel Faure. Leduc.
Softcover. 47 pages.
Alphonse Leduc #AL30692.
Published by Alphonse
Leduc (HL.48186452).
UPC: 888680828363.
9.0x12.0x0.192
inches.
Widely
acclaimed by music lovers
for over a century,
Selected Songs of
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
are here collected into
an anthology, complete
with an audio version in
the form of a download
card. Excerpted from the
1st collection published
in 1879, Au bord de l?eau
and Ici bas bestow an
aura of internal reverie
on Sully Prudhomme?s
simple poems, made
palpable by the harmonic
refinement and vocal
fluidity that constitutes
the very essence of
Faurean
charm. Several vocal
pages selected in the 2nd
volume (1897) continue to
be favourites: Les Roses
d?Ispahan restored to
their dreamy stillness,
Les Berceaux whose
oscillation evokes the
swaying of boats, and the
very nostalgic Clair de
lune in which Verlaine?s
words, set to music for
the first time, inspired
Faure to write what would
become one of his
masterpieces: La Bonne
Chanson. From this
cycle, drunk on lovelorn
lyricism, the collection
retains Puisque l?aube
grandit, an exalted
melody if there ever was
one, and La lune blanche
luit dans les bois, a
nocturnal landscape in F
sharp major ? two pearls
that distil the same
mystery of solace..