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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Encounters with Fauré’s piano music in recitals are generally limited to small selections of pieces, but there ...

Professor of Musicology Carlo Caballero remembers when he fell in love with the music of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): “It was when I heard his ‘Requiem’ as an undergrad at Pomona College [in southern ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There has already been one major recording of Fauré’s songs in the past two years — French tenor Cyrille Dubois ...

The work of the imagination consists of attempting to formulate all that one wants that is best, everything that goes beyond reality,’ Fauré wrote to his son Philippe, in August 1908. ‘To my mind art, ...

His melodies are stylish and elegant, chic even, etched with a sleight-of-hand urbanity. His music flows effortlessly, magically combining Monet’s liquid cool with the warmth of a Pisarro landscape, ...

Kathryn Stott celebrates the music of Gabriel Fauré, on the eve of the centenary of his death, and looks back on her career as she prepares to step down from the concert platform. Show more Gabriel ...

‘The human soul dreams of being cradled like a child’ — Fauré’s Requiem offers a radiant and tender vision of heaven, comforting audiences far beyond the composer’s original Parisian congregation.