Fanfare, January 1st, 2008
FAURÉ Nocturnes (complete) * Émile Naoumoff (pn) * SAPHIR 1077 (2 CDs: 92:39) Those accustomed to the crisp, briskly straightforward manner of such early 20th-century French players as Jean Doyen or Yvonne Lefébure (whose style was very close to what we know of Fauré's own) or, more likely, to the later, heavily pedaled impasto of Jean-Philippe Collard or Pascal Rogé, may find Naoumoff's tilt at the Nocturnes under- or over-interpreted-or both. Rarefied. But heard without expectations, his performances are a significant achievement. He plays a Fazioli, preferring its range of colors, whi...
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