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.

Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite & Other Works

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.
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