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Gabriel Fauré: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano
Numbering more than one-hundred in total, and composed across a sixty year period, Gabriel Fauré’s songs form the single most influential contribution to the field of French art song. The final instalment of Edition Peters' complete critical edition of Gabriel Fauré’s works for voice and piano is now available for medium low or high voice. Bringing together his last four cycles La Chanson d’Ève; Le Jardin clos; Mirages; and L’Horizon chimérique, this volume represents the major part of Faure's vocal output between 1906 and 1921. Published together for the first time, these late masterpieces form the bedrock of the twentieth-century French song cycle. This is also the first published edition to make the four cycles available to higher voices.
Renowned Fauré scholars Roy Howat and Emily Kilpatrick were responsible for this critical urtext edition. Based on the study of hundreds of manuscript and printed sources, this edition has been tested internationally in masterclasses, workshops, seminars, concerts and recordings, with the participation of professional singers, students, teachers, coaches and specialists. You can find all available volumes in the series below.
This first volume contains all songs written up to 1882, encompassing many of Fauré’s most well-known and loved songs, including Après un rêve, Le papillon et la fleur and Au bord de l’eau.
An edition for high voice is also available.
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This second volume comprises the songs of Fauré’s creative maturity, including popular favourites alongside some lesser-known gems, together with his three vocal duets and the delightful four-voice Madrigal.
An edition for high voice is also available.
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Gabriel Fauré: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano, Volume 3: The Complete Verlaine Settings
Medium/Low Voice
Gabriel Fauré’s seventeen settings of the poetry of Paul Verlaine mark the biggest single stylistic leap of his compositional career, and arguably one of the high points of the entire art song repertoire.
An edition for high voice is also available.
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Gabriel Fauré: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano, Volume 4: The four late song cycles
Medium/Low Voice
The final volume in the award-winning complete critical edition of Gabriel Fauré’s works for voice and piano.
An edition for high voice is also available.
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Between 1906 and 1916 Gabriel Fauré composed a substantial body of accompanied vocalises for use in the Conservatoire’s sight-singing examinations. This collection of contains forty-five vocal exercises for voice and piano.
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