This album is included in the following sets:
This set contains the following albums:
- Producer's Note
- Full Track Listing
- Cover Art
Presenting Gabriel Fauré at his very finest
First in a Fauré series remastered by Peter Harrison
In Summer, 1953, the Nixa Record Company
issued two LPs of Fauré's chamber music and this re-release has been
sourced from an original pressing of one of those two discs (the other
is intended for next month's release).
Copies of the discs are rare, so the restorer has to work from what he has. Like many such LPs, the pressing quality is indifferent and the disc itself badly worn in places (by the 8 gram 'lightweight' pickups of the time!) and with a huge amount of clicking and swishing which needed considerable work to minimise.
Some residue may still be heard on critical listening; but I think that the artistic performances justify the re-release and I'd urge anyone who isn't familiar with these musical by-ways to give them a try: they're pieces that are well worth getting to know.
- PMH
FAURÉ Quartet No. 1 for Piano and Strings in C minor, Op. 15
FAURÉ Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 117
Recorded late 1951 (?) early 1952 by Polymusic
First issued, 1952, in USA on Polymusic 1007
First issued, 1953, in UK by Nixa Record Company Ltd on QLP 4007
Producer and Audio Restoration Engineer: Peter Harrison
Gaby Casadesus, piano
Members of the Guilet Quartet:
Daniel Guilet, Violin
William Schoen, Viola
David Soyer, Cello
David Soyer, Cello
Leopold Mittman, Piano
