Live Video: Claire de Lune (Fauré) – Sarah Acres (Cello) & Albert Combrink (Piano)

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Claire de Lune (Menuet) Op. 46 No. 2 (1887) (Gabriel Fauré 1845-1924) – Sarah Acres (Cello) & Albert Combrink (Piano)

Live Amateur Video recorded at the Casa Labia Cultural Center, Muizenberg, Cape Town, 13 June 2013

Cello Transcription by Sarah Acres
Website: Sarah Acres at Cellist in the City
Website: Albert Combrink – https://www.albertcombrink.com
Twitter: @albertcombrink

Read more about the original programme here:
L’invitation au voyage at Casa Labia

Read more about the song here:
Claire de Lune

Artwork:
Constantin Somov. Lady and Pierrot, 1910. Gouache on paper.

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Live Video: Les Roses d’Ispahan” (Fauré) – Sarah Acres (Cello) & Albert Combrink (Piano)

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John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) “My sweet rose” (1903)

Live video: “Les Roses d’Ispahan” Op.39 No.4 (Gabriel Fauré /Leconte de Lisle) – A love affair in the Capital of Persia

Sarah Acres (Cello) & Albert Combrink (Piano)

Live Amateur Video recorded at the Casa Labia Cultural Center, Muizenberg, Cape Town, 13 June 2013

Cello Transcription by Sarah Acres

Website: Sarah Acres – http://www.facebook.com/CellistInTheCity
Website: Albert Combrink – https://www.albertcombrink.com
Twitter: @albertcombrink

Read more about the original programme HERE.

“Les Roses d’Ispahan” Op.39 No.4 (Gabriel Fauré)

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“Les Roses d’Ispahan” Op.39 No.4 (Gabriel Fauré /Leconte de Lisle) – A love affair in the Capital of Persia

Oh, if only your youthful love, that light butterfly,

would return to my heart

and perfume once more the orange blossom

and the roses of Ispahan in their sheath of moss.

One of Fauré’s most-loved and most-performed songs, even the title conjures up expectation of something exotic, fragrant and special. The ‘Rosa Ispahan’, also known as ‘Pompon des Princes’, is a clear pink, half-open kind of Damask rose (an early type, introduced from [read more…]

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Automne Op.18 No.3 (Gabriel Fauré 1845-1924)

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Automne (Trois mélodies) Op.18 No.3

{1878, published 1880} Text: Armand Silvestre (1837-1901 ) /Music: Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) – à Mademoiselle Alice Boissonnet.

Marilyn McCabe’s image of Armand Sylvestre & Gabriel Fauré

Paul-Armand Silvestre (April 18, 1837 – February 19, 1901) was a Parisian born poet, journalist, art critic and was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1886. A civil servant, not regarded as one of the great French poets, nonetheless attracted a lot of composers to his work, as they “left tactful scope for [read more…]

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Claire de Lune Op. 46 No 2 (Gabriel Fauré)

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Claire de Lune (Menuet) Op. 46 No 2 (1887) – Gabriel Fauré

"Even while singing, in a minor key,

of victorious love and fortunate living,

they do not seem to believe in their happiness"

Regarded by many as the quintessential French Melodié, it is hard to imagine the tempestuous relationships led by its creators. The poet attempted to kill his lover in a jealous rage, and the composer, slipping into depression in an unsatisfying marriage, was extremely attractive to women and “his conquests were legion in the Paris salons.” [Duchen, Jessica. “A still, small voice”, The Guardian, 24 November 1995, p. A12]

Fauré [read more…]

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