Roy Howat

This revised and expanded volume contains all Fauré's single-movement cello pieces, two of them published here for the first time. Also included as an appendix is a little-known sight-reading etude fo...

This is the first volume in a five-volume set of the complete songs and vocalises of Gabriel Fauré, the only complete critical edition. Based on the study of hundreds of manuscript and printed sources...

Gabriel Faure wrote his Vocalises for students at the Paris Conservatoire, where he was director. Until now, they have remained unknown in the French National Archives; this first edition provides a f...

This is the first volume in a five-volume set of the complete songs and vocalises of Gabriel Fauré, the only complete critical edition. Based on the study of hundreds of manuscript and printed sources...

Even in these early pieces Fauré's penchant for unusual and daring harmonic shifts is already apparent. This edition offers alternative readings based on Fauré's piano-roll recording of the third roma...

Fauré would have been delighted to know that this edition corrects the misguided feline associations in the titles for the second and fourth of these pieces. 'Mi-a-ou' should always have been known as...

Numbering more than 100 in total, and composed across a 60-year period, Gabriel Fauré’s songs form the single most influential contribution to the field of French art song. Despite their importance, t...

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 reperto...

Les compositions de chansons de Gabriel Fauré font partie des points forts de la chanson française. À l’occasion du 100e anniversaire de la mort du compositeur, Edition Peters présente un album de cha...

Les compositions de chansons de Gabriel Fauré font partie des points forts de la chanson française. À l’occasion du 100e anniversaire de la mort du compositeur, Edition Peters présente un album de cha...

The Complete Chopin – A New Critical Edition from Edition Peters est fermement établi comme l’édition savante la plus importante de la musique de Chopin et est un must pour tout pianiste exigeant. Les...

The new Peters edition of Fauré's Barcarolles, like that of the Nocturnes, draws on a very wide range of sources including piano rolls played by him and printed copies bearing his corrections. Along w...

Claude Debussy 'Arabesque No. 1' includes the printed score, a written masterclass from concert pianist and musicologist Roy Howat, in which he considers Debussy's structures and musical language, a b...

Avec la publication des Études Op. 25 de Chopin, l'ensemble des 27 Études de Chopin est désormais disponible dans la célèbre série The Complete Chopin - A New Critical Edition (L'intégrale Chopin - Un...

Fauré made a piano transcription of the 'Pavane', but subsequently he revised his original orchestral score. Howat's new transcription is true to the spirit of Fauré's arrangement. The preface quotes...

Roy Howat's arrangement of 'Dolly', based on his Urtext revision of the original duet version, sits firmly within the French tradition of transcription, with its focus on elegance and clarity of textu...

These exquisite pieces are among many Fauré works which have long puzzled pianists with illogical-seeming metronome markings. The issue is addressed comprehensively in this edition, presenting the per...

Nowhere in Fauré's output are the polemics about tempo and metronome markings so pronounced as in this extended and relatively neglected piece. The detective work for the scholar and the performer beg...

Fauré komponierte die Elégie für Violoncello und Klavier 1880, möglicherweise als Teil einer Sonate, die nie fertiggestellt wurde. Der Erfolg der Uraufführung 1883 war so groß, dass Fauré das Stück 18...

This is an editorial 'tour de force' of this seminal work. The inter-relationships between sources are especially challenging, and the resultant size of the critical commentary in this edition may at...

This attractive volume brings back into the repertoire the delightful 'Morceau de lecture', which had been unaccountably out of print for almost a century. The 'Romance' and particularly the 'Berceuse...

Urtext Edition by Roy Howat Just as this remarkable series of works spanned virtually the whole of Fauré's compositional career, so they can give us a lifetime of enrichment. One can only marvel at th...