Faure: Pelleas and Melisande

Academy of St Martin in the fields / Neville Marriner
410 5522 4 DH
* DIGITAL-ONLY REISSUE *

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A delightful and charming programme of popular Fauré pieces in a demonstration-quality recording. The ever-popular Pavane is included in the version with chorus.

"These pieces have the advantage of a particularly good digital recording. The depth and richness of the ASMF's sound ... is most striking ... Bennett plays the Fantaisie exquisitely.
Gramophone

Tracklisting

Pelléas et Méliisande - Suite, op.80
1. I Prélude: Quasi Adagio 5:53
2 II Andantino quasi allegretto 2:42
3 III Sicilienne: Allegretto molto moderato 3:52
4 IV Molto adagio 4:13
5 Pavane, op.50 (with chorus) 5:41
6 Fantaisie pour flûte, op.79 5:30

Masques et Bergamasques - Suite, op.112
7 I Ouverture: Allegro molto vivo 3:41
8 II Menuet: Tempo di minuetto. Allegretto 2:34
9 III Gavotte: Allegro vivo 3:05
10 IV Pastorale: Andantino tranquillo 4:07
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