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Gabriel Fauré died on 4 November 1924. Here's a little extract from his Piano Quartet in G minor, apparently filmed in Apeldoorn by some...

Those eyes. That moustache. And oh, that music... Happy birthday to my beloved Gabriel Faure, born on 12 May 1845.

Heck, The Guardian's done it again...today Joe Queenan's Classical Music Primer has reached 'E is for English music, F is for F...

"The work of the imaginatiion consists in attempting to formulate all that one wants that is best, everything that goes beyond reality....

Back from a delicious few days hearing and interviewing the Beaux Arts Trio in Berlin. Fascinating city, as ever; every time I go there (th...

Several music bloggers have been posting recently about the relative merits of different approaches to musical analysis: 'impressionisti...

Solti Originally uploaded by Duchenj . It's the silly season, it's Saturday night and as usual I'm home alone because Tom...

I've set to work on the piano part of the Faure A major violin sonata. (Yes, Faure does have an acute accent, but my browser can't d...