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Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite & Other Works

2025Naxos 8.574619Vocal

I’ve never met a musical take on Pelléas et Mélisande I didn’t like. There’s a lot to love about this recording, which also includes Mélisande’s Song and Fauré’s criminally underrated cantata, Prométhée. A must-listen for devotees of turn-of-the-century French music.

Weston Williams

This album spotlights Gabriel Fauré’s orchestrated songs and his music for the stage, of which his suite from the incidental music for Pelléas et Mélisande includes some of his best-loved music. Performances of Fauré’s spectacular Wagnerian drama Prométhée are a real rarity, while the Shylock Suite, based on Shakespeare, contains some of his most elaborate symphonic music. Fauré orchestrated only a small number of his more than 100 songs. Star Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught performs three of these orchestrated songs, as well as Mélisande’s Song and an air from Prométhée. Jean-Luc Tingaud, a specialist in both symphonic and operatic French repertoire, leads the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.

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