Jean Claude Pennetier

Jean-Claude Pennetier – Fauré: Intégrale de l’œuvre pour piano, Vol. 4 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:27 minutes | 853 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Mirare

For the final volume in his complete recording of Fauré’s piano works, Jean-Claude Pennetier immerses us in the fascinating world of the late nocturnes and barcarolles. The desolate songs of a man who could barely hear any more, dreams of a chimeric horizon: the Fauré of the last years is a traveller in search of unprecedented experiences.
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Jean-Claude Pennetier – Fauré: Intégrale de l’oeuvre pour piano, Vol 3 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:10 minutes | 806 MB | Genre: Classical, Piano
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Mirare

A taste for clarity of thought, sobriety and purity of form, sincerity, disdain for grandiose effects’: that was how Gabriel Fauré, the creator of a quintessentially French art, summed up his artistic and spiritual creed. In his output for piano, of which he was particularly fond, he followed the trail blazed by Chopin, fearlessly using the boldest strokes of harmony to colour his music with a highly individual charm.
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