‘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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Après un rêve,” Op. 7, No. 1 is a romantic song published in 1878 and is about a dream of romantic flight with a lover, away from the earth and “Towards the light” and wants desperately to return to ...

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 ...

The later, string-quintet version of Fauré’s song cycle, celebrating his affection for the married Emma Bardac, is sung and played with beauty and finesse Nicky Spence/Julius Drake/Piatti Quartet: ...

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, ...

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