The International String Quartet:
Andre Mangeot (violin)
Walter Price (violin) Max Gilbert (viola)
Bernard Richards (violoncello)
Yvonne Arnaud (pianoforte) Fauré had great power of lyrical expression. His music abounds with beautiful and finely drawn melodies.
A consummate craftsman and a harmonist of considerable range and subtlety, everything he wrote was polished to the utmost degree and designed with an unerring sense of balance and clarity of style.
It is a curious fact that although chamber music was an important creative medium with Faure, the purest of all chamber music combinations-the string quartet-he neglected until the last year of his life, when the String Quartet in E minor appeared. In many respects it is a beautiful work, particularly the expressive slow movement, but it is perhaps not quite so perfectly finished as the composer's other chamber works, for he died before he could give it a final revision.