大象传媒

Donald Macleod charts the life and work of Gabriel Faure. He's joined by the composer's biographer Jessica Duchen, pianist Billy Eidi, and the leading authority on Faure's music, Jean-Michel Nectoux.

Listen to his work and you'd think he was the perfect Parisian gentleman. Faure's music is the epitome of charm, of a Gallic gentleman's reserve. There's nothing offensive, only page after page of utter beauty and ravishing melody. But look into his eyes and you get hints of another story: those dark orbs of a deep-thinking southerner, a man who always struggled for recognition, but who never lost the ability to seduce a lady.

Donald Macleod begins his exploration in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, at Passy Cemetery, where Faure is buried with family members, friends, and leading cultural figures.