The Piatti Quartet join Nicky Spence (tenor) and Julius Drake (piano) to release a new album this Friday (28th February) of songs by Gabriel Fauré. The album entitled: La Bonne Chanson & other songs is released on Hyperion. “Fauré’s output of songs embraced some sixty years and much of his reputation rested on them. Interviewed in Le Petit Parisien in 1922, he remarked: ‘Yes, they’ve been sung a lot … Not enough to make my fortune, but too much even so. My colleagues in the profession reckoned that as I’d done so well in the medium, I ought to stick to it all the time!’”
For more information and to purchase the album (from Friday), please visit the Hyperion website: https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68450