David Lefort

Pierre Fouchenneret, Simon Zaoui, Raphaël Merlin, David Lefort – Gabriel Fauré: Horizons (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:31:56 minutes | 2,28 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Aparté

Designed as an immersion in Gabriel Fauré’s chamber music, the double album recorded by the pianist Simon Zaoui with Pierre Fouchenneret on the violin, Raphaël Merlin on the cello and the tenor David Lefort, unlocks the secrets of Fauré’s late style. In spite of their quasi hermetic density, the French composer’s scores still retain the charm of his youthful works where his melodic genius was more direct.

If Fauré knew the German composers, his expression is of a different sort. No extravagant effusion in his music but an intimate emotion that is perfectly restored here. Around the pianist Simon Zaoui, who subtly underlines the serious gravity of the last three Nocturnes, the musicians perform Fauré’s sonatas, trios and the autumnal melodies of L’Horizon chimérique.”
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