Honens @ Home: Adela Liculescu performs Fauré

In 2018, Honens International Piano Competition Semifinalists
chose between four programs in the collaborative round.
Semifinalist Adela Liculescu chose the program that included
Gabriel Fauré's Violin Sonata No. 1.


About the piece, Fauré's former piano teacher, Camille
Saint-Saëns, said: "In this sonata you can find everything to
tempt a gourmet: new forms, excellent modulations, unusual tone
colours, and the use of unexpected rhythms. A magic floats above
everything, encompassing the whole work, causing the crowd of
usual listeners to accept the unimagined audacity as something
quite normal. With this work Monsieur Fauré takes his place among
the masters.”


It's no wonder the piece is one of Jon Kimura Parker's
favourites. 

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Watch the video edition of this excerpt at honens.com/home.