Mi Zhou, the cellist on this recording, won the 2011 Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes, Switzerland's most important music prize.
Historical Context
Both composers featured on this album, Gabriel Fauré and Victor Herbert, died in the same year, 1924, and both experienced challenging childhoods.
Cultural Impact
Victor Herbert's Second Cello Concerto in E minor inspired Antonín Dvořák to compose his own renowned Cello Concerto in B minor.
Recording & Production
This album features the first-ever recording of a forgotten work by each composer, Gabriel Fauré and Victor Herbert.
Composition History
Paul K. Haug, the conductor on this album, reconstructed Gabriel Fauré's Symphony in F, Op. 20, by redistributing an organ part for the second movement and using an overture for the finale.
Composer Biography
Gabriel Fauré, a prominent Parisian organist, wrote almost no organ music and destroyed much of his early orchestral work.
Composer Biography
Victor Herbert, despite believing he was born in Dublin and part of the Irish diaspora, was actually born on the island of Guernsey.
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