Fauré - Elégie

Well, since I've seen some chamber music on the site, I thought I'd post some of my own.

For starters, here's one of Fauré's most often performed works for cello and piano, the Elégie. This was recorded two years ago, with cellist O. Guéret. It wasn't in a live setting but we recorded it in a single take, hence a few slips here and there which I hope you will kindly forgive.

Fauré - Elégie for cello and piano ( 6:03 )

 

Not having played very much chamber music, I am not attuned to the difficulties that are presented in that genre, but I found your recording very musically satisfying. The atmosphere fit the piece beautifully, and I especially liked the way you and the cellist handled the melody line. I did hear a bobble or two, especially in the more intense climax, but for me they did not detract from the beauty of the music. I hope you and that cellist can collaborate again in the future (and we can benefit from the results! :wink: ).

 

A good performance of this popular Faure piece. The funereally slow tempo did severely try my patience though (not helped by the fact this isn't my favourite Faure work).
Your cellist mostly has a nice and firm tone and you are very well together throughout. Good job ! I will put it up later. Yes do record more if you can.

It could have done with some reverb, sounding a bit dry as it is.

 

I like chamber music because it's very interesting to see how the performers communicate with each other. And in your case the communication is very successful, indeed!
But when the performer are immersed too deeply in their own intimate conversations, they sometimes tend to forget at all that there is the audience in front of them and it appears to the audience a little bit boring (It's not my opinion but that of Anne-Sophie Mutter :wink. I see it isn't a live performance, so you two had no audience at then. But IMHO to make the performance a little bit more exciting would do no harm to this sad piece

 

This one is finally up the site !