Fauré - Piano Quintet No.2 in C minor, Op.115 (score)

- Composer: Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 -- 4 November 1924)
- Performers: Ysaÿe Quartet[Guillaume Sutre (violin), Luc-Marie Aguera(violin), Miguel Da Silva(viola), Marc Coppey(cello)], Pascal Rogé(piano)
- Year of recording: 1996- 4
Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol, United Kingdom
Piano Quintet in C minor No.2, Op.115, written from September 1919 to March 1921
00:25 - I. Allegro moderato
11:37 - II. Allegro vivo
15:46 - III. Andante moderato
27:26 - IV. Allegro molto
At the end of his life, Fauré's music takes on a curiously detached -- contemplative -- aspect as sonata form (bent readily to his uses) hand-in-glove with textural transparency provides a solid frame for constant quicksilver modulations verging on atonality. Never a confessional composer, the sublimation of abundant passion -- and abundant gaiety -- to an expressive ideal is nonetheless revealing of a deepening restlessness in its elliptical, elusive, exploratory gestures. Indeed, Fauré's transitions, while never less than seamlessly deft, possess a straightforwardness which occasionally approaches the notorious brusquerie of Albéric Magnard. Despite the deafness and physical frailty which dogged his last years, such works as the Second Violin Sonata, the Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra, and the Second Piano Quintet are powerfully worked on large canvases.
The latter was begun in the summer of 1919 during his first stay in the village of Annecy-le-Vieux, continued during a winter in the Midi and another summer at Annecy, and completed in Nice in February 1921. Over a rippling accompaniment, Allegro moderato, a confiding first theme on the viola is taken by the strings in turn and answered by the fugal second theme on the strings alone, rounded by a phrase on the piano which will figure prominently in the development. The second theme is given a brief but regular fugal exposition in the course of the development -- the closest Fauré came to academic writing in any of his mature works -- though the rapidity with which it dissolves into supple, delicate polyphony suggests satire, tongue-in-cheek. Closely organized, this seemingly spontaneous cascade of melody pours forth in inexhaustible invention through an extended development arching toward a brilliant coda. Any regret that such an engagingly argued movement should end is swept away by a capriciously coruscating Scherzo of sheer fantasy enigmatically etched in whole-tone sonorities, appearing out of nowhere, shimmering, and disappearing into nothingness. Like the initial movement, the Andante moderato is wrought from three themes -- the viola leading a brief lament in the strings, a consolatory answer from strings and piano, and a chorale on the piano which rises eventually to a softly glowing benediction. The development becomes a tender threnody, the more moving for its restraint. Beginning warily in C minor, the Allegro molto rondo finale lightens through increasingly animated scintillations, teasingly vacillating between major and minor, to end radiantly in C major.
The triumphant, critically acclaimed premiere was given May 21, 1921, at a concert of the Société Nationale de Musique, by André Tourret and Victor Gentil, violins; Maurice Vieux, viola; Gérard Hekking, cello; and Robert Lortat, piano. "As the last chord sounded," Fauré's son, Philippe Fauré-Fremiet, recalled, "the audience were on their feet. There were shouts, and hands pointing to the box in which Fauré was sitting (he had heard nothing of the whole occasion). He came to the front row all alone, nodding his head . . . and looking so frail, thin and unsteady in his heavy winter coat. He was very pale."

[@erin79]

The more I hear Faure, the more I like him.

[@lungjess]

And it had its premiere may 21 1921 in Paris, that’s today a 100 years ago.. 💫🪐✨

[@user-mb1dr1pd8w]

若い時よく聴いていた曲です。記憶が蘇ります。お宮さん、ありがとう…☆

[@francoislaplante7951]

Que se passe-t-il dans la tête de Fauré pour nous rendre cette musique telle que nous la connaissons complètement sublissime. Le génie créateur a sa plus forte expression. Que ses musiques ne nous soient à jamais préservées de l’oublie ou du silence des mort.

[@hamuki88]

Masterpiece! Thank you so much.

[@titicatfollies6615]

The entire work with Ysaye! -- all together! Thank you so much!

[@vishnuhalikere2151]

the three harmonic buildups at 1:06 are just so good I can't describe it in words. Particularly the one that happens at 1:14 I'm in love with.

[@steveegallo3384]

Vishnu Halikere -- EXACTLY! BRAVO from Acapulco !

[@b.k8733]

amazingly beautiful!

[@lungjess]

Thanks for sharing🙏🏼💫✨

[@fredvacher3998]

It is just magnificent

[@1964ALCOZER]

capolavoro assoluto

[@user-vf5jy6bp6x]

私の15歳前後のお気に入り曲 前衛ではない室内楽曲でお気に入り FaureはRavelの師匠 南フランス的な優美さ

[@bugatti103]

Really nice bravo

[@user-vf5jy6bp6x]

優美な旋律 ラヴェルの師匠 フランスの室内楽曲の傑作 ルノアール風の映像の映画　田舎の日曜日で使用された

[@CallofCoonCoon]

I really love viola part. Yes! I AM VIOLIST and I love impression music. I hope to play this song sometime in my life.

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

love it!!

[@lungjess]

It is exactly 100 years ago these days... finished in March 1921

[@user-vf5jy6bp6x]

フランス近代室内楽曲の傑作

[@patriciaruiz4352]

QAdoro esta interpretacion , su fuerza me emociona...

[@yclept9]

Strings overwhelm piano in third movement

[@sihongwu8287]

33 minutes 33 seconds with 33 likes, I am feeling very 33 right now

[@user-vf5jy6bp6x]

シェーンベルクはブラームスのピアノ四重奏曲をオーケストラ編曲した これもオーケストラ編曲してほしい フランスには少ない交響曲の名品になる

[@tb-pmvnsk]

10:57 lol

[@user-vf5jy6bp6x]

誰かがオーケストラ編曲してほしい シェーンベルクが編曲したブラームスのピアノ四重奏曲みたいな交響曲になる

[@lylecohen1638]

13:03

[@user-vf5jy6bp6x]

優美な旋律 近代音楽の和声 難解な響きではない これがフランス近代音楽 20世紀後半のフランス音楽は難解になった

[@user-vf5jy6bp6x]

映画「田舎の日曜日」のラストの音楽

[@user-vf5jy6bp6x]

坂本龍一はFaureについてRe-Harnonizationが上手い、と解説した

[@user-vf5jy6bp6x]

日本の音大は19世紀ドイツ音楽しか教えない

[@arihooker]

Bruh who thinks of using a sustained F to create that progression at 1:14…I’m in awe…