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The Quiet Revolutionary of the Piano – Fauré’s Complete Piano Works Now on Piano Street

In the pantheon of French music, Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) often seems a paradox—an innovator cloaked in restraint, a Romantic by birth who shaped the contours of modern French music with quiet insistence. Piano Street now provides sheet music for his complete piano works: a body of music that resists spectacle, even as it brims with invention and brilliance. Read more

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Offline michael_sayers

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you can learn something new every day
on: June 03, 2015, 09:19:07 AM
Hi Everyone,

There was a copyright complaint earlier this year at YouTube for a seemingly unrelated work, and which I disputed:



I kept thinking in the back of my mind about this "Credo for Piano Solo, Mixed Choir and Orchestra".  A little searching turned up an Arvo Pärt work which is based on that very Bach Prelude, and one can hear the familiar Bach Prelude first played in it by pianist Helene Grimaud at around 1:45, and too at quite slow tempo and also recorded in the same year as my recording of the Bach:




Mvh,
Michael