I must thank the Rough Guide or I would never have tried the excellently conducted by the French conductor Tortelier containing orchestral music of Gabriel Faure. Is begins with Masques Et Bergamasques which is a ballet  inspired by a painting by Watteau. It is marked with nostalgia best in the final section  l pastorale.. The Ballade is an  orchestrated piano work that makes evokative use of the winds is quite beautiful. The Pavane is quite elegantly composed. The prelude to the opera Penelope  is filled with  appropriate sense of dread, .The fantasie for flute and orchestra was my personal favorite thing  on this CD  very well played with Richard Davis on flute brought tears to my eyes. The Elegie  for cello and orchestra is also  very movingly played by Peter Dixon was also used in Faure's state funeral. The Dolly Suite written as a piano duet  dedicated to  the young  daughter of a singer named Dolly is quite sweet in le jardin de Dolly.