Ursula Holliger & Peter-Lukas Graf - Musik für Flöte und Harfe / Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Fantaisie Op. 79 Andante / Allegro The flute and the harp: a marriage consecrated by Mozart’s double concerto. The dilettante flautist, Duc de Guines, who commissioned this work, and his daughter who, according to Mozart ’played the harp magnificently’, were among the countless flautists and harpists enlivening the otherwise somewhat dull musical ’soirées’ held in salons of Paris and London to St-Petersburg till well into the nineteenth century. Celebrated contemporaries such as N