Fauré: Barcarolles; Dolly Suite
Pascal Rogé
Pascal Rogé’s Fauré: Barcarolles; Dolly Suite is a 2026 Decca release devoted to Gabriel Fauré’s piano music, issued around Rogé’s 75th birthday. The centre of the album is Rogé’s first complete recording of Fauré’s thirteen Barcarolles, a cycle that spans much of the composer’s life and traces his movement from graceful early lyricism toward a more elusive, harmonically subtle late style. Rogé brings the refined touch and clarity long associated with his French repertoire recordings, emphasizing poise, colour, and quiet complexity rather than overt display.
The album closes with Fauré’s Dolly Suite, performed by Rogé with pianist Elena Font. Its six movements are lighter and more playful than the Barcarolles, evoking childhood through lullaby-like tenderness, dance rhythms, and delicate four-hand interplay. Together, the program gives a rounded portrait of Fauré: intimate, elegant, inward, and gently radiant, with Rogé treating the music as a world of shifting shades and understated emotion.
Fauré: Barcarolles; Dolly Suite
Pascal Rogé
Pascal Rogé’s Fauré: Barcarolles; Dolly Suite is a 2026 Decca release devoted to Gabriel Fauré’s piano music, issued around Rogé’s 75th birthday. The centre of the album is Rogé’s first complete recording of Fauré’s thirteen Barcarolles, a cycle that spans much of the composer’s life and traces his movement from graceful early lyricism toward a more elusive, harmonically subtle late style. Rogé brings the refined touch and clarity long associated with his French repertoire recordings, emphasizing poise, colour, and quiet complexity rather than overt display.
The album closes with Fauré’s Dolly Suite, performed by Rogé with pianist Elena Font. Its six movements are lighter and more playful than the Barcarolles, evoking childhood through lullaby-like tenderness, dance rhythms, and delicate four-hand interplay. Together, the program gives a rounded portrait of Fauré: intimate, elegant, inward, and gently radiant, with Rogé treating the music as a world of shifting shades and understated emotion.