A gorgeous performance of the well-known Élégie comes as the first of the five “encores” on this magnificent disc devoted for the most part to Fauré’s two cello sonatas, the D minor, composed in 1917, ...

His Élégie of 1880 is both passionate and inward, gorgeous in melody and harmony. He wrote other pieces for cello and piano, four of which Alban Gerhardt and Cecile Licad include here ( Romance, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Those who know him only by the Requiem may be surprised to learn that, at least for connoisseurs, the real Fauré was ...

Fauré’s cello music is among the most sublime in the instrument’s repertoire. The sonatas are late works, often deemed ‘difficult’ yet full of energy, poetry and startling originality. The short ...