Aline Piboule, piano & Pascal Quignard, récitant : Le dernier amour de Fauré

Presented by ECOLE NORMALE DE MUSIQUE DE PARIS (PLATESV-D-2023-006822). Fauré's Last Love Fauré's romantic relationship with Marguerite Hasselmans, witness to the last twenty-four years of the composer's life, inspires pianist Aline Piboule and writer Pascal Quignard to create an intimate dialogue between music and words. From their meeting in 1900 until the composer's death, Marguerite Hasselmans was an interpreter of choice, an intimate friend, and a daily confidante, observing Parisian musical life as well as the maturation of Fauré's oeuvre. Pianist Aline Piboule, accustomed to bringing diverse worlds together with her instrument, and writer Pascal Quignard, frequently inspired by music, lend them their voices in an intimate program combining period piano and narrative. A secret facet of the French master emerges, pieced together through the exposure of extensive correspondence excerpts, unpublished writings by the author who also narrates, and late works with romantic contours. PROGRAMMEGabriel Fauré (1845-1924)Improvisations (from Huit pièces brèves)Barcarolle No. 13Theme and variations in C-sharp minor, variations No. 6 and 9Nocturne No. 11Nocturne No. 12Barcarolle No. 9Barcarolle No. 10Theme and variations in C-sharp minor, variation No. 8Barcarolle No. 12Nocturne No. 13