Archangel: A Foray Into Gabriel Fauré

This recital marks the centenary of Fauré’s death with a breathtaking musical love story. Drawing on Fauré’s letters to his fiancée, Marianne Viardot, and on Turgenev’s novella The Song of Triumphant Love, it has rarely been told before. Words and music in alternation build the narrative together, while the concert spotlights Fenella Humphries in some of the most thrilling French virtuoso violin works of the fin-de-siècle era.