Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Encounters with Fauré’s piano music in recitals are generally limited to small selections of pieces, but there ...
Tonight BBC4's Sacred Music series turns to France, and two vital figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Gabriel Fauré and Francis Poulenc. Of all the sacred works of its time, none is ...
Professor of Musicology Carlo Caballero remembers when he fell in love with the music of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): “It was when I heard his ‘Requiem’ as an undergrad at Pomona College [in southern ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There has already been one major recording of Fauré’s songs in the past two years — French tenor Cyrille Dubois ...
His melodies are stylish and elegant, chic even, etched with a sleight-of-hand urbanity. His music flows effortlessly, magically combining Monet’s liquid cool with the warmth of a Pisarro landscape, ...
Outstanding recordings of Fauré's greatest works, featuring Marianne Crebassa, Quatuor Ebène, Steven Isserlis, Gérard Souzay and more Gabriel Fauré's music is unmistakable, and once you have ...
Composed in 1887, Fauré's graceful Pavane was originally a piano piece, based on a traditional Spanish court dance. It’s another perfect example of Fauré refining his musical ideas into miniature form ...
It’s rare for a heritage fashion house to dismiss the luxury label outright—especially one with 300 years of history. Yet at the recent Manila launch of Fauré Le Page’s Ladies First bag, Augustin de ...
‘The human soul dreams of being cradled like a child’ — Fauré’s Requiem offers a radiant and tender vision of heaven, comforting audiences far beyond the composer’s original Parisian congregation.