Gabriel Fauré, Complete Songs : Volume 1: 1861–1882; edition for medium voice
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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
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- 2860323
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- R - Scholarly edition
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- Title of edition
- Gabriel Faure, Complete Songs: Vols. 1-3, editions for High and Medium voice
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- Peters Edition
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- Open access status
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- The three volumes of this critical edition build on my previous work on Fauré’s instrumental music, and my 2009 book for Yale University Press The Art of French Piano Music. They make his 100+ songs available in one critical edition for the first time, providing all the songs in medium and high voice keys, some for the first time and all Faure’s Verlaine settings, united in a single volume for the first time.
The edition is based on a comprehensive scrutiny of original sources, and corrects hundreds of entrenched errors, offering hitherto unpublished or long-inaccessible variants from manuscript and other sources. Prefaces to each volume include information about historical performance and advice to performers, giving performers confidence to use the material in the editions inventively and feel at home in the idiom.
The work of preparing and disseminating these editions has included workshops, recordings, concerts & radio broadcasts in UK (Radio 3 In tune, Australian ABC National Radio), Europe, N. America and Australia, and several CDs have been recorded from the edition, two with Howat and Kilpatrick at the piano.
Working at the RCS with Chris Underwood and students of vocal department over several years during the preparation of this edition was particularly rewarding, Chris having been taught by two distinguished pupils of one of Fauré’s best vocal collaborators, Claire Croiza. Musicians using these new editions will see immediately what good music this is, and above all that some songs long considered boring or deficient because of corrupt old editions are enthralling given a new reliable text to work from.
Vol. 1 won the 2015 German music publishers’ Edition of the Year award.
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