Following the publication of Élégie, Fauré was immediately commissioned to write a second piece for cello, perhaps as a lighter counterpart. The five sections of Papillon contain contrasting material: the odd-numbered ones might equally be a French ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’, pre-empting Rimsky-Korsakov’s 1899 version; in the two enclosed sections the cello sings a lyrical, symmetrical song that finally takes wing over one of Fauré’s favourite descending bass lines. Notes by Roger Nichols
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Gabriel Fauré
Papillon, Op. 77 Play
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Following the publication of Élégie, Fauré was immediately commissioned to write a second piece for cello, perhaps as a lighter counterpart. The five sections of Papillon contain contrasting material: the odd-numbered ones might equally be a French ‘Flight of the Bumblebee’, pre-empting Rimsky-Korsakov’s 1899 version; in the two enclosed sections the cello sings a lyrical, symmetrical song that finally takes wing over one of Fauré’s favourite descending bass lines. Notes by Roger Nichols
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