Artist: Angela Hewitt
Album: Faure: Piano Music
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2013
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 01:12:49
Total Tracks: 18
Total Size: 574 MB

Tracklist:

01. Angela Hewitt – Theme et variations, Op 73 – Theme (01:57)
02. Angela Hewitt – Theme et variations, Op 73 – Variation 1. L’istesso tempo (00:58)
03. Angela Hewitt – Theme et variations, Op 73 – Variation 2. Piu mosso (00:52)
04. Angela Hewitt – Theme et variations, Op 73 – Variation 3. Un poco piu mosso (00:48)
05. Angela Hewitt – Theme et variations, Op 73 – Variation 4. L’istesso tempo (01:25)
06. Angela Hewitt – Theme et variations, Op 73 – Variation 5. Un poco piu mosso (00:48)
07. Angela Hewitt – Theme et variations, Op 73 – Variation 6. Molto adagio (01:50)
08. Angela Hewitt – Theme et variations, Op 73 – Variation 7. Allegro moderato (00:51)
09. Angela Hewitt – Theme et variations, Op 73 – Variation 8. Andante molto moderato (01:27)
10. Angela Hewitt – Theme et variations, Op 73 – Variation 9. Quasi adagio (01:17)
11. Angela Hewitt – Theme et variations, Op 73 – Variation 10. Allegro vivo (01:16)
12. Angela Hewitt – Theme et variations, Op 73 – Variation 11. Andante molto, moderato espressivo (02:46)
13. Angela Hewitt – Valse-caprice No 1 in A major, Op 30 (07:22)
14. Angela Hewitt – Valse-caprice No 2 in D flat major, Op 38 (07:43)
15. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No 5 in B flat major, Op 37 (08:34)
16. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No 6 in D flat major, Op 63 (09:12)
17. Angela Hewitt – Nocturne No 13 in B minor, Op 119 (08:28)
18. Angela Hewitt – Ballade pour piano seul, Op 19 (15:06)

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Angela Hewitt’s recordings of French piano music have received the highest critical acclaim, her ‘tenderness, Gallic wit, verve, and—the most important ingredient of all—charm’ proving perfect for works by Chabrier, Debussy, Ravel and indeed Rameau and Couperin. Now she turns to a composer who is more serious and introspective, with a refinement that has led to him being relatively overlooked by performers. But in Angela Hewitt’s hands this music is an utter joy.

This album includes the major work Thème et variations, Op 73—one of Faure’s greatest works for piano—and a selection of Valses-caprices and Nocturnes. It ends with a more radiant piece from Fauré’s youth, the earliest piece included on this recording—the Ballade pour piano seul, Op 19, dedicated to Saint-Saëns.’Hewitt’s way with the Valses-caprices is scintillating and extrovert, most notably in the second waltz’s swing-high, swing-low teasing sophistication … she is notably sensitive, too, to the openings of Nocturnes Nos 6 and 13, and to the latter’s anguished utterance … Hewitt’s excellently recorded disc (as bright as the playing) provides an invigorating modern alternative’ –Gramophone
‘Take a French composer with a contrapuntal bent, whose music requires a rigour, poise and nuance akin to that of a ballet dancer. Then choose a pianist, such as Angela Hewitt, whose feel for all these qualities is a given. The result is an exquisite Fauré recital … Hewitt’s clarity is exemplary. The purity and strong, supple backbone of her playing lets Fauré’s inventive genius, his extraordinary sensitivity to colour, harmonic shading, texture and eloquence, shine on its own terms’ –BBC Music Magazine