From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Fauré is the French composer the world finds hardest to dislike. While Debussy means custard to some tastes and Ravel an acute form of mustard, their senior colleague wore a bushy white moustache and wrote Claire de Lune. What’s not to like?
Fauré’s reputation has barely changed since his death, 100 years ago this week….
Read on here.
And here.
En francais ici.
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