Phillips,Xavier Faure: The Music For Cello & Piano CD

The music of Gabriel Faur? is at once unclassifiable and inexpressibly beautiful. One must yield to it's seductions, savor in it the charm of the unexpected. The cello is the voice of the Faur? m?lodie without the words. It's mellowness conceals passion. When Xavier Phillips and C?dric Tiberghien take possession of it, it becomes sensual, incandescent, a bouquet of refined, evergreen harmonies. The ?l?gie and the Berceuse will never fade, nor will the two late cello sonatas, whose surging vitality is that of a young man of more than seventy.

1. Faur?: Sonata for cello and piano n?1 in D minor, Op.109 - Allegro 2. Faur?: Sonata for cello and piano n?1 in D minor, Op.109 - Andante 3. Faur?: Sonata for cello and piano n?1 in D minor, Op.109 - Final : Allegro commodo 4. Faur?: ?l?gie in C minor, Op.24 5. Faur?: S?r?nade Op.98 6. Faur?: Sicilienne Op.78 7. Faur?: Berceuse Op.16 8. Faur?: Romance Op.69 9. Faur?: Papillon Op.77 10. Faur?: Sonata for cello and piano n?2 in G minor, Op.117 - Allegro 11. Faur?: Sonata for cello and piano n?2 in G minor, Op.117 - Andante 12. Faur?: Sonata for cello and piano n?2 in G minor, Op.117 - Allegro vivo 13. Faur?: Apr?s un r?ve Op.7 No.1