Recording: Gabriel Fauré - Nocturne No 1 in E flat minor
I really fell in love with this piece by Fauré.
Recorded on March 24, 2026 during a concert at the Konzertsaal, Konservatorium Winterthur, Switzerland.
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Excellent playing! That piece reminds me of Chopin's "Raindrop" Prelude at the beginning and Amy Beach's A Hermit Thrush at Eve in the middle.
Have you played any of his other Nocturnes?
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Hi Ursine - this is very impressive! Great sensitivity to the many colours and I like your agitated bass murmurs as well as your sparkling leggiero passagework! Your playing is engaging throughout as though telling a rich story. It is definitely clear you connected with this piece. It is a challenging work! Thanks for sharing =)
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Ursina, as usual, this is fantastic playing and thank you for sharing it with us.
Thank you as well for the reminder to myself not to ignore Fauré. I love this piece as well but I would include the whole set of 13 Nocturnes equally. One day, hopefully soon, when I find the time to start on one of these Nocturnes it might be difficult for me to pick one over the other to start on.
The problem is that every time you (and everyone on Tonebase, in general) play something inspirational (like Polonaise-fantaisie, Op. 61, for instance!) it gets added to my priority list but I'm so backlogged I sometimes don't know where to start first.
Despite the obvious problems you are causing for my workload I look forward to your next big musical adventures that you might share with us. 🙂