Fauré: Belated Rewards
Donald Macleod explores how Faure finally attained the job he had always sought - the directorship of the Paris Conservatoire. There, he masterminded the institution's reinvention.
The top brass did their best to keep him out, and it took a scandal to do it, but eventually Gabriel Fauré got the job which brought him the status and recognition he'd always wanted: directorship of the Paris Conservatoire. Donald Macleod makes his way to the very office where Fauré masterminded the institution's reinvention, joined by the composer's biographer Jessica Duchen.
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Gabriel Fauré
Morceau de Lecture
Performer: Kathryn Thomas (Flute), Performer: Richard Shaw (Piano)
- DEUX-ELLES: DXL1125.
- 4.
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Gabriel Fauré
Pelléas et Mélisande: Prélude
Performers: L’Orchestre Symphonique Français, Performers: Laurent Petitgirard (Director)
- ADDA:590055.
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Gabriel Fauré
Hommage à Gabriel Fauré
Performer: Margaret Fingerhut (Piano)
- Chandos: Chan 8578.
- 18.
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Gabriel Fauré
Impromptu no.5
Performer: Kathryn Stott (piano)
- HYPERION: CDA669111.
- 5.
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Gabriel Fauré
La Chanson d'Eve op.95: Paradis
Performer: Marilyn Schmiege (Mezzo-Soprano), Performer: Donald Sulzen (Piano)
- ORFEO: C347941A.
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Gabriel Fauré
Pénélope: End of Act III (scenes 6-7)
Performer: Alain Vanzo (Tenor – Ulysse), Performer: Jessye Norman (Soprano – Pénélope), Performer: Jocelyne Taillon (Mezzo-Soprano – Euryclée), Performer:José van Dam (Bass – Eumée), Performer:Ensemble Vocal Jean Laforge, Performer:Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Performer: Charles Dutoit (Conductor)
- ERATO: ECD88205.
- 5.
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- Thu 1 Jul 201012:00BBC Radio 3
- Thu 1 Jul 201022:00BBC Radio 3
- Thu 30 May 201312:00BBC Radio 3
- Thu 30 May 201318:30BBC Radio 3
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