Following the successful edition of Schumann’s complete works, Eric Le Sage and Alpha have decided to produce a new series of 5 CD’s dedicated to Gabriel Fauré’s complete works for chamber music with piano. This series in general and its first volume in particular, constitute a milestone in Alpha’s development as they are the first of a line devoted to music from the post-Mozart period. Each volume will be placed in the literary context of the time in which it was created through fragments taken from novels, poems or the correspondence of artists.

Eric Le Sage will work on this series together with François Salque with whom he shares a great musical affinity. Sound engineer Jean-Marc Laisné (who recorded the integral works of Schumann) will record the pieces in the auditorium of Grenoble, a hall famous for its acoustics. Through the combination of their talents, these men will
breathe new life into these well known pieces.

There is no doubt this series, just like the recordings of Schumann’s complete works, will become a reference on the classical music scene.

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It is through collections such as Ut Pictura Musica and Les Chants de la Terre that Alpha, over ten years ago, established a reputation for itself, cultivating its success and notoriety through a constant search for excellence in artistic choices, editing and sound quality.

Alpha sought to offer listeners a transversal vision of music by linking it to pictures and paintings that allow us to enrich our perception, knowledge and understanding of the music that we listen to, of the music that we experience. The present collection will begin with a five volume series of Gabriel Fauré’s complete works for chamber music with piano by Eric Le Sage. It will emphasise the link that exists between music and poetry and thus attempt to create new affinities just like Baudelaire did in his poem Correspondences.