Nice video. For me, Faure, is a hugely forgotten composer, who I hope one day will 'catch on' again. His music is very unique. He doesn't sound like anyone else. It is a haunting fantasy landscape, and that is special.

@annika_panicka

7 ай бұрын

Rest assured, at any given time a choir is performing Fauré's Requiem and/or Cantique de Jean Racine is being performed somewhere in the world.🎵

@_pablotg_1824

13 күн бұрын

@@annika_panicka Eso me hace sentir muy feliz. Gracias por recordar que no somos pocos los que apreciamos el invaluable genio de Fauré.

I really appreciate your brave attempts at pronouncing foreign words and names. Thanks.

the best thing about learning about composers is seeing how they all interacted and admired each other. thanks for this video i like knowing about the composer i am playing a piece from.

Fauré's a jolly good fellow! Fauré's a jolly good fellow! Fauré's a jolly good fe..el..ow! And so say all of us as the song may have said! It seems appropriate that the tune is of French origin or so I understand Blessings and peace sir.

Faure is my favorite composer (I always wonder what rock got in Poulenc's shoe about him), but I think the greatest of works are his chamber music, some of which reflects such a sunny outlook when he is younger, and then his later works have this great autumnal quality that seems to be looking forward to death (the depiction of a peaceful death is explicitly his aim in his genius Requiem from his early-middle period). His piano writing in his quartets and especially quintets have this wonderful shimmering filigreed color to them, which to me is maybe a confirmation that he had a full palette without ever getting into timbral considerations of orchestrations. It's this unvirtousic piano writing that I think is the most consistent throughline in his work. The emotion that I think of his music often expressing is a turbulent sadness hiding under a a kind of resigned, stoic demeanor (that's my take anyway, but I wonder if Poulenc's objection was one of his own particular emotional temperament rejecting this outward reserve). His austere quartet (which I didn't get it at first) reflects some practices of his late compositions, where he used greater interval leaps than in his early melodic writing, which featured a lot more movement among very close intervals, but it's interesting that he actually took a theme that he composed much earlier in his career from an unfinished violin concerto (a reconstructed version of which you can hear on KZread - It's a puzzling work, and the material seems to work much better in the context of the quartet) and used it in the quartet, so it's not extremely far from his earlier work. It seems like eschews really traditional organizing structures in his music, and uses his modulations to develop motives. To me, it has this wonderfully organic internal logic to it, but I could see it being offputting to some who might resonate more with the very formal organizing structures of say, Cesar Franck.

Very interesting and sometimes humorous details about Faure's life. Merci beaucoups!

Thank you very much for this. I did like Faure's music but never had the time to look into more of his personal life, which I discovered to be quite colourful and interesting. I subscribed for this, keep up the good work.

Awesome, thanks for making this

An excellent little foray into the world of Faure. I've loved his music for a long time but knew nothing of his life, so, thanks. Time for a bit of Judas Priest now, man does not live on bread alone.

One of my preferred French composers of the Late Romantic period. I have had a direct personal experience with his music, having had the chance to sing "Le Cantique de Jean Racine", a short sacred choral piece that's well known in the French repertoire. The melodic lines and contrapunctal harmonies are really too much, and at every performance, my eyes filled with the tears that only the purest beauty can conjure up. You can hear a version of that work on the English Wikipedia page for Gabriel Fauré (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Faur%C3%A9; under "Vocal") but better ones are available everywhere if you search a little

@_pablotg_1824

13 күн бұрын

Llevo unos meses en proceso de descubrimiento de Fauré. No sabes la emoción que me haría tocar o escuchar en directo el gran Cantique de Jean Racine. Comprendo esa sensación incluso sin haberla experimentado.

I heard Cicilienne in a movie soundtrack and searched it a year ago. It's just so touching. I know nothing to speak of of classical but Cicilienne seems intimate. There's a verity and purity in it that transcends words. This lesson is much appreciated. I couldn't find another video like this. Yes, I could've Wikied but it's impersonal and I was really looking for some emoting. Again, appreciated.

@rrkdudas6848

3 жыл бұрын

Il Divo

Great video, and video series! I'm glad you included the Frank Zappa one. I checked out the Trout Mask Replicas Album from that video and found it hilarious. My interpretation of it was almost making fun of several genres of music on a funny, not hostile way. While simultaneously breaking basically every "rule" of music. I've listened to the whole thing twice.

DAT BEARD. Great video!

@wadaries

2 жыл бұрын

hahaha dam, did not notice that at first, now I can’t take my eyes off it

Thank you!

Thanks, as always, for the great content. Is there a chance you could do a video about Martinů? Thanks

@ClassicalNerd

7 жыл бұрын

Eventually; the request queue is very long [ lentovivace.com/requestqueue.html ] and it'll be probably mid-March before I can get to it.

@vaclavmiller8032

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the quick response : )

Request: please PLEASE consider doing a video on a Cesar Franck!!!

@ClassicalNerd

3 жыл бұрын

Duly noted: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

@4evercallas

3 жыл бұрын

Classical Nerd thank you so much! And thanks for your work! Thankful for you! Organist/composer here, in the Rio Grande Valley in the southernmost tip of Texas.

Nice video dude, subscribes

Request: Beverly Sills

@ClassicalNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Added.

Don't forget , Pyotr called him "adorable" :P

@maxalaintwo3578

3 жыл бұрын

If Tchaikovsky of all people says that, you'd better worry.

@authenticbaguette6673

3 жыл бұрын

@@maxalaintwo3578 why ? I don't get it .

@maxalaintwo3578

3 жыл бұрын

@@lampphoto I guess it's alright in that case

@rainyday6430

2 жыл бұрын

​@@authenticbaguette6673 he was into men lol

@authenticbaguette6673

2 жыл бұрын

@@rainyday6430 I know. You don't often hear straight men calling other men "adorable" now, do you...

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With regard to art song, I've always considered Faure the French Schubert.

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0:59 Could you tell me who that composer is that you named? I couldn't figure it out.

@StellarReview2010

5 ай бұрын

Camille Saint-Saëns. :)

What is this personal experience

@ClassicalNerd

7 жыл бұрын

Let's just say there are those out there who do not know how different the organ is from the piano and expect someone good at the latter to be equally good on the former. (One of these days I'll make a video about this in greater detail.)

The difference with Schubert! Haha!

What a horrible way to go deaf