Composer of the Week - Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) - Episode 4

The top brass did their best to keep him out, and it took a scandal to do it, but eventually Gabriel Fauré got the job which brought him the status and recognition he'd always wanted: directorship of the Paris Conservatoire. Donald Macleod makes his way to the very office where Fauré masterminded the institution's reinvention, joined by the composer's biographer Jessica Duchen. Morceau de Lecture Kathryn Thomas (flute), Richard Shaw (piano) Pelléas et Mélisande: Prélude L'Orchestre Symphonique Français, Laurent Petitgirard (conductor) Schmitt: Hommage à Gabriel Fauré Margaret Fingerhut (piano) Impromptu no.5 Kathryn Stott (piano) Le Chanson d'Eve: Paradis Marilyn Schmiege (mezzo-soprano), Donald Sulzen (piano) Pénélope: End of Act III (scenes 6-7) Alain Vanzo (tenor - Ulysse), Jessye Norman (soprano - Pénélope), Jocelyne Taillon (mezzo-soprano - Euryclée), José van Dam (bass - Eumée), Ensemble Vocal Jean Laforge, Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor) Ballade Kathryn Stott (piano).