Fauré : Fantaisie for piano and orchestra, Op.111

Fantaisie for piano and orchestra Op.111

Fauré seldom expressed anger in his music, but this work sometimes appears uneasy and unbalanced feeling. He composed it during World War I, and the war seemed to affect the work.

This work is like concerto for piano and orchestra, but movement is only one and not named "concerto". It has three-in-one (A-B-A') form. A is rather slow movement and B "Allegro molto" is fast, uneasy, and urgent.

Discography

• Felicja Blumental(p), Rudolf Schwarz (cond), Philharmonia Orchestra (orch)
• Jean-Marc Bouché(p), Claude Bardon (cond), Orchestre de Caen (orch)
• Jerome Ducros(p), Moshe Atzmon (cond), Bretagne Orchestra (orch)

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