This programme spotlights Gabriel Fauré’s orchestrated songs and his music for the stage, of which his suite from the incidental music for Pelléas et Mélisande includes some of his best-loved music. Performances of Fauré’s spectacular Wagnerian drama Prométhée are a real rarity, while the eloquent Shylock suite, based on Shakespeare, contains some of his most elaborate symphonic music. Fauré orchestrated only a small number of his more than 100 songs, but these include the transcendentally beautiful love song Les Roses d’Ispahan with its harmonic subtleties and gorgeous coda.
Works:
•Faure: Pelleas & Melisande - Suite op.80
•Faure: Shylock: op. 57
•Faure: Tarantelle op. 10 Nr. 2 (arrangiert von Andre Messager)
•Faure: Melisande's Song aus Pelleas et Melisande op. 80 (Orchesterfassung von Charles Koechlin)
•Faure: Promethee op. 82 (Tragedie lyrique / Auszüge); En Priere
•Faure: La Chanson du pecheur op. 4 Nr. 1
•Faure: Les Roses d'Ispahan op. 39 Nr. 4 für Sopran & Orcheste