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FAURE C'te Piano Works 4CDs: Nocturnes 1-13; Theme & V'tions;Ballade; Preludes; Barcarolles; Impromptus; 4 Valses-Caprices; 8 Pieces Breves; Mazurka; 3 Romances Sans Parolles; Dolly Suite; Souvenirs de Bayreuth. Collard piano (Brilliant Cl)
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Collard's playing is masterly, refined and sensitive, as you might expect if you look up his credentials. Recent Gramophone and Penguin guides are unforgivably silent about this set. If you go back to 1999, Penguin gave Collard top billing, alongside Stott and Crossley. After listening and comparing to as much as I could on-line, I actually found I preferred Collard above his full-priced alternatives, and, after purchase, I found the music to be consistently great. So, don't hesitate! This is a true bargain.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
This is amongst the elite of all performances on record of Faure's piano music.
Some of it IS the best I've ever heard by quite a long way.
And yet this is outrageously neglected?
Other and recent performances that are musically and technically inferior get the praise, but anyone who knows what Faure wished to hear will not
forgive the ubiquitous over-active rubato gland, and the sloppy pedal techniques found elsewhere.
I totally agree with Malcolm Black's review below where he says: "Recent Gramophone and Penguin guides are unforgivably silent about this set.
If you go back to 1999, Penguin gave Collard top billing"
Jean Phillipe Collard really is the one to buy!
(If you can find Jean Doyen/Erato get that too for some extra perspective).
The small caveat attached to this reissue - and in no way should it put anyone off because the original release was the same (but at four times this price) - is that there are some mastering and/or recording issues which have resulted in the first disc (Nocturnes 1-11) having a higher noise floor, lower level. Indeed there are also some small mastering level unevenness between tracks elsewhere, together with very occasional awareness of opening noise gates ...audio 'restoration' such as it exists on this: it's a shame someone doesn't do this properly using modern restoration technology but with the original master tapes - maybe EMI have failed to archive & maintain them properly?
Anyhow forget all that because the profound performances & music released are enough to push all that from your mind ... it sounds very good even listening on studio grade reference systems & convertors.
Some of it IS the best I've ever heard by quite a long way.
And yet this is outrageously neglected?
Other and recent performances that are musically and technically inferior get the praise, but anyone who knows what Faure wished to hear will not
forgive the ubiquitous over-active rubato gland, and the sloppy pedal techniques found elsewhere.
I totally agree with Malcolm Black's review below where he says: "Recent Gramophone and Penguin guides are unforgivably silent about this set.
If you go back to 1999, Penguin gave Collard top billing"
Jean Phillipe Collard really is the one to buy!
(If you can find Jean Doyen/Erato get that too for some extra perspective).
The small caveat attached to this reissue - and in no way should it put anyone off because the original release was the same (but at four times this price) - is that there are some mastering and/or recording issues which have resulted in the first disc (Nocturnes 1-11) having a higher noise floor, lower level. Indeed there are also some small mastering level unevenness between tracks elsewhere, together with very occasional awareness of opening noise gates ...audio 'restoration' such as it exists on this: it's a shame someone doesn't do this properly using modern restoration technology but with the original master tapes - maybe EMI have failed to archive & maintain them properly?
Anyhow forget all that because the profound performances & music released are enough to push all that from your mind ... it sounds very good even listening on studio grade reference systems & convertors.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Faure's solo piano music is almost criminally underrated. Few top pianists have tackled it, which makes this excellent complete set by Jean-Philippe Collard all the more welcome. It compares favourably to other complete sets by Kathryn Stott and Paul Crossley both in terms of quality and price. Collard seems to have found the ideal voice for Faure's elusive writing, from the earlier Chopinesque pieces to the harmonically ambiguous and fascinating later pieces. The Nocturnes in particular are masterpieces that deserve to be played a lot more often.
If you don't know the music, this will be the best £10 you're ever likely to spend.
If you don't know the music, this will be the best £10 you're ever likely to spend.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Solo Fauré
What mellifluous melodies by this outstanding French composer and member of "Les Six". Easy to be stimulated by it, but also easy to go to sleep to.
Published 1 month ago by Dr. Quentin Spender
Fantastic...sublime....
This is possibly the best £10.00 or so that I have spent this many a year. Opening the rather sturdy box (thank you Brilliant Classics for attention to detail), I found myself... Read more
Published 1 month ago by os
faure's a jolly good fellow!
Just great,I have Stott also,but Collard is now my absolute recommendation,and a very reasonably priced set,too. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Music Lover
as everyone says: unmissable!
No one has served French piano music as well as Jean-Philippe Collard, and his complete Faure is something to wonder at, really a set of discs to live by! Read more
Published 3 months ago by schumann_bg
Classic performances at bargain price
Collard's recordings for EMI from 1970-83 are reissued her ny Brilliant on 4 cds at an excellent price; he is in his element in this repertoire, and the performances are... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Adagietto
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