Michael Endres - Gabriel Faur�: 13 Barcarolles

The 13 Barcarolles of Faur�, composed over the course of almost four decades (1882-1921), are highly representative of his piano oeuvre and are considered his most characteristic works. They reflect his separation from the romantic idiom of Chopin and Mendelssohn, in particular, and his progress towards an independent musical language in which he achieved a successful harmonious reconciliation between tradition and the modernism that was emerging at the time. Michael Endres recorded these pieces for Oehms Classics at WDR in Cologne in May 2017.