The Piatti Quartet perform Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson with tenor Nicky Spence and pianist Julius Drake at the Aldeburgh Festival this afternoon. The concert is also being recorded for future broadcast by BBC Radio 3:
brittenpearsarts.org/events/la-bonne-chanson
Last year, the same musicians released an album of the same name on Hyperion Records:
prestomusic.com/classical/products/9754953–faure-la-bonne-chanson-other-songs
“Fauré’s songs represent his art at its most radiant, demonstrating the composer’s exceptional gift for melody as well as his acute sensitivity to the subtleties of the greatest French poets of the day. In ‘La bonne chanson’, the result is a song cycle like few others: an ecstatic hymn to the beloved (the composer’s mistress) which celebrates the triumph of love.