FAURE: PIANO MUSIC (BALLADE & NOCTURNES & PELLES ET MELISANDE) - PHILIPPE CASSARD

Gabriel Fauré: Master of overwhelming lyricism Fauré fascinates with his vigor, his inexhaustible energy, his radiance, the crystalline arabesques of his piano music. This aristocrat of phrasing, this lover of poetry blazed a trail free of all dogma, on which French pianist Philippe Cassard now embark with fervor.

Ballade for piano & orchestra in F sharp major, op.19 13’28
Nocturne no.2 in B major, op.33 6’09
Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, op.80 16’01
Nocturne no.4 in E flat major, op.36 6’27
Nocturne no.11 in F sharp minor, op.104 4’13
Pénélope 7’29
Fantaisie for piano and orchestra in G major, op.111 14’20