Quatuors pour piano Numéros 1 et 2

Description

Young quartet really? Timid gesture, playing under the lampshade, comfort tempo, if the Werther sought the lyrical vein, even emotion, they have reduced Fauré to what he is most definitely not, a salon musician. This tiny piano that glides in the scherzo is the absolute opposite of what is needed. All of this borders on the pretty in an opus 15 that should be sunny, flowing, singing high. Will they have better found the more contrasting characters of opus 45? Alas no, by pulling its swells towards silence, by refining the nuances to the extreme, and sometimes it is truly very beautiful, they dilute its symphonic character. A shame because in their absolutely chamber music vision, which seeks backlighting, the Second Quartet, as if freed from all pressure, encounters a singular poetics throughout the grand Allegro molto moderato, and also in the mystery of the Adagio, the pinnacle of Fauré's work. But as the first measures of the finale resonate, the illusion fades, taken slow, heavy even though it is of little sound, the four friends cautiously return to huddle in the salon. (Discophilia - Artalinna.com) (Jean-Charles Hoffelé)