For a composer who shied away from the orchestra, and often assigned to others (e.g., Koechlin, Roger-Ducasse) the dirty work of scoring his music, Gabriel Fauré contributed some pretty nice pieces to the repertory. Several of them are presented here, along with the only surviving movement—the substantial opening Allegro—of his 1879 Violin Concerto in D Minor. The latter is beautifully played by Renaud Capuçon, who also conducts the entire bill of fare as head of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. In addition to the rarely recorded concerto movement, this collection includes Masques et Bergamasques; the celebrated four-movement suite Fauré drew from his incidental music for Pelléas et Mélisande; the Élégie (in the version for cello and orchestra, played by Julia Hagen); the Ballade, Op. 19 (in the version for piano and orchestra, played by Guillaume Bellom); the Pavane, Op. 50; and the brief Berceuse, Op. 16 (in the version for violin and orchestra, again featuring an impeccable Capuçon as soloist). The pickup on the solo instrumentalists is excellent. That on the ensemble is too, except in louder passages—especially if timpani or string basses are involved—when things become a bit boomy.