佛瑞:鋼琴作品集 菲利浦・卡薩德 鋼琴 / Philippe Cassard / Faure

As always, immersion in all strata of a work can recreate a world, with its spirit, colors, fragrances, idioms, ideals, and better understand the evolutions, singularities and sources inspiration.

The pianist Philippe Cassard has been rocked since his childhood by the music of Gabriel Faure and now plays almost all of his repertoire. The caressing pianism of La Ballade evokes those black touches that Chopin cherished. The central part of Nocturne No. 2 seems to arise from a Bunte Blatter of Schumann. That of Nocturne No. 4 is reminiscent of the ecstasy of Tristan and Isolde, Wagner. The Fantasia, composed by a man of almost seventy-five years of deafness, fascinates with its vigor, its inexhaustible energy, its luminosity and the crystalline arabesques of the piano. Penelope's Prelude is an impressive, grandiose page, with an exceptional breath.

Here is a wonderful tribute to Gabriel Faure; this aristocrat of phrasing, this lyrical distracted, this lover of poetry has traced a furrow freed from dogmas, that the interpreters of the whole world now borrow fervently.