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Faure is a master of creating cool, delicate, elegant melodies that progress in complex, unexpected, and, often, achingly lovely, ways. "Ravishing" might be nearly the right adjective for these quintets, but that adjective calls a bit too much attention to itself, and Faure's music never does that. These piano quintets, like virtually all of Faure's chamber works, are nothing if not subtle, and, though certainly "French", they don't sound like anything else, before or since.
This interpretation by Domus/Marwood is all that any admirer of this music could hope for. The performers here do a lot more than get the notes right--they seem sensitive to the atmosphere these works can create when played with insight and concentration. The recording itself has to be perfect to capture all the necessary nuances of the music and intricacies of the performance, and it is. The end result is about as beautiful as music can be.
If you admire Faure's Requiem, but are not familiar with his chamber works, well, you have a lot of catching up to do. This CD is a great place to start.
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