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Fouchenneret/Zaoui/Merlin/LefortA muscularity and lack of preciousness in these performances bring out the subtleties in Fauré’s late works This collection of Gabriel Fauré’s chamber music is by no means comprehensive; for a complete survey, the 2011 Virgin Classics recordings, with the Capuçon brothers and pianists Nicholas Angelich and Michel Dalberto, remain the ones to seek out. In this new set (on label Aparté), from violinist Pierre Fouchenneret, cellist Raphaël Merlin and pianist Simon Zaoui, the focus is very much on the later works. The main pieces are the two sonatas for cello and piano, the Second Violin Sonata, and the Piano Trio, all of which were composed in the eight years before Fauré’s death in 1924. Presumably for completeness, the First Violin Sonata, from 1876, is also included, underlining the stylistic distance that his music travelled over the course of his composing career, together with several miniatures and three of the piano […]
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