Faure, Gabriel | Barcarolles for Piano

Description

Faure’s 13 “Barcarolles”, composed over a period of almost four decades (1882–1921) are highly representative of his output for piano and are regarded as his most characteristic works.
They reflect his breaking free from the Romantic idiom, particularly that of Chopin and Mendelssohn, developing an independent musical language in which he combined tradition and the emerging modernism.

Christophe Grabowski is a French pianist and doctor of musicology studied in Warsaw and Paris.
He has edited a volume of the “Ceuvres complètes de Gabriel Fauré”, is Series Editor of the “Complete Chopin. A New Critical Edition” as well as two volumes of the Édition “Complète des Ceuvres de Claude Debussy”. Together with John Rink he published the “Annotated Catalogue of Chopin’s First Editions” in 2010

Fauré: Barcarolle No. 1 in A minor, Op. 26
Fauré: Barcarolle No. 2 in G major Op. 41
Fauré: Barcarolle No. 3 in G flat major Op. 42
Fauré: Barcarolle No. 4 in A flat major Op. 44
Fauré: Barcarolle No. 5 in F sharp minor Op. 66
Fauré: Barcarolle No. 6 in E flat major Op. 70
Fauré: Barcarolle No. 7 in D minor Op. 90
Fauré: Barcarolle No. 8 in D flat major Op. 96
Fauré: Barcarolle No. 9 in A minor Op. 101
Fauré: Barcarolle No. 10 in A minor Op. 104 No. 2
Fauré: Barcarolle No. 11 in G minor Op. 105
Fauré: Barcarolle No. 12 in E flat major Op. 106
Fauré: Barcarolle No. 13 in C major Op. 116