If one had to choose just one genre to which Fauré’s name deserves to be for ever linked, it would be the barcarolle. The thirteen he wrote offer a perfect synthesis of his compositional development. This repertory, so ill suited to brilliance and technical display, is marvellously served here by Jean-Philippe Collard in his second recorded version, forty years after the first on the Pathé Marconi label.

Delicacy and mystery awaiting discovery in January 2022.