Au bord de l'eau ("S'asseoir tous deux au bord du flot"), song for voice & piano, Op. 8/1
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Au bord de l'eau ("S'asseoir tous deux au bord du flot"), song for voice & piano, Op. 8/1
- Date: 1875
- Composer: Gabriel Fauré
- Period: Romantic (1820-1869)
Review
By the mid-1870s, when Fauré was in his early thirties, the composer's mature style had begun to crystallize in such works as the Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13 (1875 - 76) and the Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15 (1876 - 79). Au Bord de l'eau (1875), from the Three Songs, Op. 8, is an especially felicitous example. For the alternately long and short lines of Prudhomme's Parnassian poem ("To sit together at the edge of the stream which goes by, / To see it go by, / Together, if a cloud glides by in the air / To see it glide by...." ), Fauré conjured a bewitchingly insinuating, echoing vocal line which unfolds over constant piquant modulations and deft shifts between the minor and major modes that mirror the poem's doubt that love, amid transience, can last. The final major chord suggests that it can. ~ Adrian Corleonis, RoviAlbums with Complete Performances of the Work
Albums with Excerpt Performances of the Work
| Title | Date |
| Gabriel Fauré: Complete Works for Cello and Piano | 1997 |
| Au bord de La Mer (Chant du Pêcheur), for cello & guitar | |
| Au bord de l'eau, for voice & piano |
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