Complete Songs Vol. 4 high voice
SKU: 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..
SKU: BA.BA09388-22
ISBN 9790006566983. 41.8 x 29.2 cm inches.
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) is best known as a composer of songs, the Requiem, several pieces of chamber of music and the Pavane. The OEuvres completes de Gabriel Faure, published by Barenreiter since 2010, has taken on the task of displaying his music in all its variety to a new listening public. Now the eighth volume has appeared in print: Jean-Michel Nectoux' thematic catalogue.With 201 entries in chronological order, the catalogue lists every known work by this French composer. The entries, each with its new 'N' number, provide information on opus numbers (those assigned during Faure's lifetime), scoring, key, musical incipit, text incipit, text source, manuscript sources, date of origin, dedicatees, date of first performance, relationships to publishers, printed editions, authorial and non-authorial arrangements (if any), commentary and bibliographic references. No fewer than six indices make the volume easy to search.The thematic catalogue (Catalogue Nectoux) will soon prove to be an indispensable reference work for anyone interested in Faure and the music of his era. It is a distillation of Nectoux' scholarly efforts of the past 50 years, the result of his journeys to every library where Faure's manuscripts are preserved - and a milestone of French musical scholarship.
