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Gather Disc 6 (2021)

Disc 6 begins with some of the finest works of French Romanticism, the first two of the set unified by the imagination and dreams of children. Georges Bizet’s best-known contribution to the keyboard literature, Jeux d’enfants (Children’s Games) opens the disc, followed by an irresistible miniature, titled Rêve d’enfant (A Child’s Dream) and written by composer-virtuoso Eugène Ysaÿe, a transformational figure in the violin tradition. Gabriel Fauré’s Violin Sonata no. 1 in A major, a triumph of the composer’s youth, demonstrates the emergence of a singular musical voice that would define a generation. The disc concludes with Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quintet no. 2, a work that seamlessly blends Classical elegance with Romantic passion. | Liner Notes

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