A gorgeous performance of the well-known Élégie comes as the first of the five “encores” on this magnificent disc devoted for the most part to Fauré’s two cello sonatas, the D minor, composed in 1917, ...
We meet a teen cellist from a large musical family who performs a theatrical piece by Cassadó. An 18-year-old saxophone player with a commitment to community engagement delivers a moving Elegy by ...
Like thousands of other evacuees, musicians from the New Orleans-based Louisiana Philharmonic are now scattered around the country. The orchestra will gather in Nashville early in October to play its ...
Fauré’s cello music is among the most sublime in the instrument’s repertoire. The sonatas are late works, often deemed ‘difficult’ yet full of energy, poetry and startling originality. The short ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Those who know him only by the Requiem may be surprised to learn that, at least for connoisseurs, the real Fauré was ...