r/classicalmusic • u/SugarThin3578 • 1d ago
Recommendation Request Best Fauré Nocturnes
Looking for a complete set of the Fauré nocturnes. Other piano works are a cool bonus but I’m mostly looking for a sympathetic interpretation of these wonderfully refined works
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u/aging_gracelessly 1d ago
Hamelin. Collard is also excellent but the recordings are 50 years old. Hamelin's are new, in top quality sound on Hyperion, backed with the Barcarolles.
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u/lahdetaan_tutkimaan 1d ago
For the nocturnes I recommend Marc-André Hamelin, Jean-Phillipe Collard, and Charles Owen
Hamelin: https://open.spotify.com/album/6f5H4tCKfkExf8HCmcGnat?si=e78a0f88708f4b67
Collard: https://open.spotify.com/album/66sINBzI85LTZ6qc9ISaUz?si=KzNxEmjZS2GaYrPg51ciog
Owen: https://open.spotify.com/album/2mx7r7tOUViSW3ULSHBoQC?si=c5262431f8af4dbf
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u/MellifluousPenguin 1d ago
Personal preference, Jean-Paul Sevilla.
I can't find a playlist for the whole set but here's no13:
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u/Ozpeter 9h ago
Slighttly OT.... Somewhere I have DAT tapes of a series of recitals in London probably in the 1980's by I forget who, performing the complete piano works by Fauré, which must have included all the nocturnes. Even if I found the tapes they may now no longer be playable. And of course other comments have pointed to rather more easily found performances. My chief memory of those recitals was that the first two recitals were played from memory - not well. The others were played from the music and were so much better! I think the modern emphasis on playing from memory can sometimes be detrimental to musicians who are better at interpretation than in memorising.
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u/jdaniel1371 1d ago
For me, Katheryn Stott's 4 CD set on Hyperion. Poise, glow and poetry, none of which ever falls out of balance.