Since you are interested in Faure: Orchestral Music (Incls 'Masques et Bergamasques, Op. 112'), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
PURCELL / MENDELSSOHN / FAURE / FINZI / ELGAR / FRANCK
Hear My Prayer-Hymns and Anthems Karina Gauvin (Soprano), Matthew Larkin (Organ) / St. John's Choir, Elora / Noel Edison (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/May/2006 ] "The first class performances demonstrate tremendous technical accomplishment. I wonder if I will hear a finer release of sacred choral music this year." (MusicWeb June 2006) |
GABRIEL FAURE
Piano Quintets Cristina Ortiz (piano) / Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2009 ] "Two magical, enchanting chamber works in alluring performances by the Fine Arts Quartet and Cristina Ortiz...magical." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Sept 2009) |
BIZET / MASCAGNI / SCHMIDT / HUMPERDINCK / PUCCINI / etc
Intermezzo Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Alexander Rahbari, conductor ; Budapest Symphony Orchestra ; Michael Halasz, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2003 ] The lights are dimmed and from the pit the sound of the orchestra rises. |
FRANCK / FAURE / d'INDY
French Music for Piano and Orchestra Francois-Joel Thiollier (piano) / Ireland National Symphony Orchestra / Antonio de Almeida (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Dec/2005 ] "Thiollier shows imagination and sensitivity in Fauré's lovely Ballade" - Penguin Guide |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem, Op. 48 / Messe basse / Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 Lisa Beckley (soprano) Nicholas Gedge (bass-baritone) / Oxford Schola Cantorum / Oxford Camerata / Jeremy Summerly [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "The fresh, forward choral tone goes with an unmannered interpretation from Jeremy Summerly, with soloists comparably fresh toned" - Penguin Guide |
GABRIEL FAURE
Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 & other works Maria Kliegel (cello) Nina Tichman (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] Fauré's two cello sonatas are compact, beautifully written works whose musical language, with its many subtle changes of tonality and gift for melody, has been described as conveying 'the power of tranquil thought'. Written in the summer of 1917,... |
CHORAL MUSIC
Discover Choral Music: a combination of illustrative music and a richly filled book Various artists and performers [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 17/Sep/2007 ] Discover Choral Music surveys and explains the development of choral music from medieval plainchant to contemporary favourites such as John Rutter and Arvo Pärt, via Renaissance motets, oratorios by Bach and Handel, and symphonies by Beethoven,... |
Pablo Casals, cello
Encores And Transcriptions Vol 1 (MacDowell, Popper, Schumann, Faure, etc) (Rec 1925-28) [ Naxos Great Cellists / CD - released 29/Mar/2004 ] "This latest release of the classic recordings of Pablo Casals is under the aegis of Mark Obert-Thorn, perhaps the most accomplished of today's restorers of 78-rpm recordings." - Moore, American Record Guide, July/August 2003 |
GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Four Hand Piano Music Pierre-Alain Volondat, Patrick de Hooge (pianos) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] Faure's musical language bridged a gap between the romanticism of the nineteenth century and the world of music that had appeared with the new century, developing and evolving, but retaining its own fundamental characteristics. |