Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Nell, op. 18 n° 1
Les roses d'Ispahan, op. 39 n° 4
Spleen, op. 51 n° 3
Après un rêve, op. 7 n° 1
Clair de lune, op. 46 n° 2
Notre amour, op. 23 n° 2
Le Jardin Clos, op. 106
Mai, op. 1 n° 2
Chanson d'amour, op. 27 n° 1
L'absent, op. 5 n° 3
Lydia, op. 4 n° 2 Cinq Mélodies de Venise, op. 58


Ailish Tynan, soprano
Iain Burnside, piano

Ailish Tynan has made a speciality of French song. The mélodies of Gabriel Fauré lie at the heart of his romantic but elusive style, and this selection ranges from the composer's youthful embrace of Italian style to late and quietly innovative settings of Verlaine in which simplicity and profundity of expression go hand in hand.