A recently discovered piano duet composed by Gabriel Fauré written around 1870 sold for £20,000 at world renowned Sotherby's Auction House, London. Fauré 's newly discovered manuscript was sold by ...

There’s not a note of the music of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) that isn’t lovely. It’s true. With some composers you have to put up with some tedious rough for some glorious smooth but with Fauré it’s ...

Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, Op. 48 opens with an unsmiling D spread out in octaves across the orchestra. Grave and unquestioning, it doesn't ask for your attention - it just takes it. But the composition ...

A muscularity and lack of preciousness in these performances bring out the subtleties in Fauré’s late works This collection of Gabriel Fauré’s chamber music is by no means comprehensive; for a ...

For his latest release on Sony Classical, pianist Lucas Debargue turns to one of the unsung treasuries of the piano repertoire - the works of Gabriel Fauré. In a remarkable undertaking, Debargue has ...

In 1918, the French composer Gabriel Fauré turned 73. He had managed to combine a life of teaching, performing and writing music. He was simultaneously organist at the famed Madeleine church in Paris ...

The French composer Gabriel Fauré was born in Pamiers, south of Toulouse, in May 1845. That was the year when Wagner’s Tannhäuser premiered in Dresden and Wallace’s Maritana premiered in London, and ...

Kathryn Stott celebrates the music of Gabriel Fauré, on the eve of the centenary of his death, and looks back on her career as she prepares to step down from the concert platform. Show more Gabriel ...

Yesterday morning at home over coffee, when I heard on our local classical-music station, WQXR, that today is Gabriel Fauré’s birthday, I foresaw the occasion to chat about some music that means a lot ...

Donald Macleod explores some of the many turning points in Fauré’s career Gabriel Fauré’s story begins during the second half of the 19th century, when the musical world was dominated by the heavily ...