 | No. 204 of the ongoing ITYWLTMT series of audio montages can be found in our archives at https://archive.org/details/pcast204 |
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This week ends our several week-long look at the sonata, and
is our last Blog and Podcast before we enter an “every other week” format of
new montages for July and August.
The sonatas in A Major by Cesar Franck and Gabriel
Faure are probably one of the most recorded “pairings” of similar works in
the same key , other than maybe the pairing of the A Minor piano concertos of Edvard
Grieg and Robert Schumann. Unlike the Grieg/Schumann pairing, the
works by the Belgian and French composers are contemporary to each other, and
the composers were – if not friends – certainly well aware of each other’s
work.
In a post from a couple of years ago in my Once Upon the
Internet series, I featured both sonatas adapted for cello and piano from
the original violin and piano. The rich sound of the cello confers a different
character to the sonatas, and is worth taking in for comparison – some of you
may even prefer these adaptations to the originals.
Today’s montage assigns the sonatas to different pairs of
performers – the Franck is played by the Lefèvre brothers, and the Fauré is
played by the studio coupling of Joshua Bell and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Both
performances are heart felt and strong in their own right.
To complete the montage, I added a cello sonata by Fauré.
I think you will love this music too.
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