The thorough craft of Faure's music withstands markedly different aproaches to playing it, not simply at the technical level but also emotionally. Just compare the recordings by Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Paul Crossley, Michel Dalberto, Kathryn Stott, Jean-Claude Pennetier... And here is another example, played with both tonal richness and clarity. At first glance it's easy to mistake Faure's piano pieces for salon music, but no matter how innocent the begnining there will be a deepening. Take the 5th Barcarolle for example, which passes through some dark places, and Faure's later music is embedded with a lonesome regret that only adults could understand. There is some of that late music here: the harmonically-out-there Nine Preludes Op. 109.

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