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Landscape at Cagnes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Private Collection / Photo © Lefevre Fine Art Ltd, London / Bridgeman Art Library, London
Track(s) taken from CDA67872

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Starting as a piece for cello and organ at some unknown date, the Romance was long delayed in its publication and finally brought out in 1894 and premiered that year in Geneva with Fauré playing the piano part. In transferring the accompaniment, Fauré articulated the original crotchet chords as semiquavers, but the solo part remains unchanged except for the very end, where the cello now hangs on to the final high A instead of making a two-octave descent. The opening of the tune recurs in the wonderful ‘Nocturne’ from Shylock, and again in the song ‘Soir’. Even if here there is no nocturnal reference, the piece conforms to an archetype of the meditative Fauré.

from notes by Roger Nichols © 2012

Recording details: October 2010
Concert Hall, Wyastone Estate, Monmouth, United Kingdom
Produced by Rachel Smith
Engineered by Simon Eadon
Release date: January 2012
Total duration: 3 minutes 46 seconds

Romance, Op 69
composer
1878-9; originally for cello and organ, rescored 1894; piano-accompanied version first performed in 1894 in Geneva, Fauré at the piano
Romance Op 69  [3'46]
Other recordings available for download
Steven Isserlis (cello), Pascal Devoyon (piano)

Other albums featuring this work
'Fauré: Cello Sonata No 2 & other works' (CDA66235)
'Hyperion monthly sampler – January 2012' (HYP201201)
Hyperion monthly sampler – January 2012
HYP201201  Download-only monthly sampler   No longer available
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