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Impromptu No 2 in F minor, Op 31

composer
1883

Eileen Joyce (piano)
Recording details: August 1938
London, United Kingdom
Release date: September 2011
Total duration: 4 minutes 21 seconds
 

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Kathryn Stott (piano)

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‘Listening to Joyce is strangely addictive. One cannot wait, as it were, to read the next chapter. She shares with Kreisler and Tauber the same unteachable ability to elevate the second-rate to the first-rate, and to illuminate familiar masterpieces with a convincing and unmistakable voice … this is such a cornucopia of good things it is hard to know where to start … full marks all round for an early Award contender’ (Gramophone)

‘The quality that comes across in these performances is the sheer joy of playing. Joyce possessed a formidable technique and an interpretative mind that blended stylish sensibility with passion … Joyce’s breadth as well as her impeccable touch and distinctive artistic personality are valuably recalled here’ (The Telegraph)» More

‘The Ballades are simply magnificent, up there with the best. Always warm and well-shaped, they are very complete in their understanding of where the music is going, always convincing in their rubato’ (MusicWeb International)
Between 1881 and 1904 Fauré wrote six Impromptus of which the Second Impromptu, a rippling tarantella (though not so described) in F minor, is by far the most well known. Indeed it is probably the composer’s most popular composition for the piano.

from notes by Ted Perry © 1999

Le Deuxième impromptu, une tarentelle ondoyante (bien qu’il ne soit pas décrit ainsi) en fa mineur, est de loin le plus connu des six impromptus composés par Fauré entre 1881 et 1904—et certainement sa pièce pour piano la plus populaire.

extrait des notes rédigées par Ted Perry © 1999
Français: Hypérion

Zwischen 1881 und 1904 schrieb Fauré sechs Impromptus, von denen das Zweite Impromptu, eine perlende Tarantella (sie ist nicht als solche benannt) in f-Moll, das bei weitem bekannteste ist. Mehr noch: Es ist vermutlich das populärste Klavierwerk des Komponisten.

aus dem Begleittext von Ted Perry © 1999
Deutsch: Anne Steeb/Bernd Müller

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