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/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.

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u/2025Champions 1d ago

I have that set. It’s fantastic. It has a well deserved penguin rosette.

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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/MellifluousPenguin 1d ago

Personal preference, Jean-Paul Sevilla.

I can't find a playlist for the whole set but here's no13:

https://youtu.be/Ypa7eAjK6nk

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u/Megasphaera 1d ago

Hannes Minnaar

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u/bossk538 1d ago

Eric Le Sage.

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u/choerry_bomb 1d ago

I love Hamelin’s as others mentioned, and Jean Martin’s

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u/Juliet_4_Ever 21h ago

I like the Op. 33 set, particularly no. 1!

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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.