Pianist, Richard Shuster, captures “the magic that Fauré wrought into the Nocturnes across a 46 year period…stunning.”– Classical Voice of North Carolina Music is a nocturnal art, a dreamlike art. It reigns in winter at the hour when the soul is confined. – Odilon Redon (private diary, 1972) The Nocturnes spam Fauré’s youth and old age. No composer after Chopin wrote as many nocturnes as Fauré. These are complex and sometimes melancholy works. Though they embody a lifetime of work in one genre, each nocturne stands alone and commands its own emotional world.