Composer of the Week - Gabriel Faure
Donald Macleod explores Faure's songs and chamber music, discovering some forgotten gems. The French composer is regarded as the master of the French art song, majoring in harmony
Composer of the Week - Gabriel Faure - Beginnings
There is bad news as Faure's hearing problems finally force him to quit his post at the Paris Conservatoire, but good news when he's feted at a national celebration of his music.
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Composer of the Week - Gabriel Faure - Episode 1
This programme includes the First Violin Sonata, which launched Faure onto the road to recognition and landed him an important publishing contract on a zero-per cent royalty!
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Composer of the Week - Gabriel Faure - Episode 2
With Donald Macleod. Faure meets Liszt, inspires Proust and chooses a wife by a rather unconventional method.
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Composer of the Week - Gabriel Faure - Episode 3
The composer turns 40, discovers Verlaine, overcomes depression and starts an affair. With two major song-cycles of Faure's middle years, La bonne chanson and La chanson d'Eve.
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Composer of the Week - Gabriel Faure - Episode 4
Examining how Faure coped with the large-scale tragedy of World War I and his own worsening deafness. He responded with some of his finest chamber music to date.
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