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RECORDING OF THE MONTH Gabriel FAURÉ (1845-1924) |
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On a date which must have been only a few years after the making of this disc I was an impressionable schoolboy sitting literally at the great man’s feet (first or second row with the stage towering above me) at a recital in what was then called Ashford High School (Kent) which included one of the Fauré sonatas. Performers of this calibre didn’t often come to Ashford and I was quite mesmerised. Tortelier was one of those performers you really have to see to get the full force of his magnetic personality; his whole body seemed to communicate his love of the music and his desire to get it across to the public. Before the performance he delighted us with a little speech in his rapid, voluble and very French-sounding English in which he showed us (with the pianist Geoffrey Pratley’s help) how Fauré used the "Tristan-chord" during the sonata. |
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