Gabriel Fauré - 13 Barcarolles [With score]

-Composer: Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924)
-Piano: Delphine Bardin

13 Barcarolles for Piano (1880 – 1921)

00:00 - I. Allegretto moderato, op. 26 (1880)
04:50 - II. Allegretto quasi Allegro, op. 41 (1885)
11:47 - III. Andante quasi Allegretto, op. 42 (1885)
18:43 - IV. Allegretto, op. 44 (1886)
22:42 - V. Allegretto moderato, op. 66 (1894)
28:45 - VI. Allegretto vivo, op. 70 (1896)
32:31 - VII. Allegretto moderato, op. 90 (1905)
35:35 - VIII. Allegretto moderato, op. 96 (1906)
39:10 - IX. Andante moderato, op. 101 (1909)
43:22 - X. Allegretto moderato, op. 104/2 (1913)
46:43 - XI. Allegretto moderato, op. 105 (1913)
51:10 - XII. Allegretto giocoso, op. 106bis (1915)
54:31 - XIII. Allegretto, op. 116 (1921)

Barcarolles were originally folk songs sung by Venetian gondoliers. In Morrison's phrase, Fauré's use of the term was more convenient than precise. Fauré was not attracted by fanciful titles for musical pieces, and maintained that he would not use even such generic titles as "barcarolle" if his publishers did not insist. His son Philippe recalled, "he would far rather have given his Nocturnes, Impromptus, and even his Barcarolles the simple title Piano Piece no. so-and-so." Nevertheless, following the precedents of Chopin and most conspicuously Mendelssohn, Fauré made extensive use of the barcarolle, in what his biographer Jessica Duchen calls "an evocation of the rhythmic rocking and lapping of water around appropriately lyrical melodies."
Fauré's ambidexterity is reflected in the layout of many of his piano works, notably in the barcarolles, where the main melodic line is often in the middle register, with the accompaniments in the high treble part of the keyboard as well as in the bass. Duchen likens the effect of this in the barcarolles to that of a reflection shining up through the water.
Like the nocturnes, the barcarolles span nearly the whole of Fauré's composing career, and they similarly display the evolution of his style from the uncomplicated charm of the early pieces to the withdrawn and enigmatic quality of the late works. All are written with compound time signatures (6/8, 9/8, or 6/4).
[more on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_music_of_Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9#Barcarolles]

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