New: A Portrait of Gabriel Fauré, 2-CD album of Fauré piano music (including duets with Emily Kilpatrick), based partly on discoveries in Roy's new Peters critical editions of these works. ABC Classics (Australia), 476 3423; release date July 2009
Fauré, the complete music for violin and piano, with Alban Beikircher. Arte Nova/BMG 74321 92763 2 (both sonatas, 4 original single pieces, plus Roy Howat's arrangements of Sicilienne and the ravishing 'Air de danse' from Caligula op. 52; liner notes in English and German by Roy Howat.) Released in April 2004, the disc was immediately featured as "Disque de la semaine" on Radio France Musique. (Having been off the catalogue for a while, it now appears to be available again.)
Pan, with flautist Michel Bellavance: Music for flute and piano by Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Ropartz and Pierné. Meridian CDE 84509 (released June 2004)
Roy's Debussy series on Tall Poppies (all the solo piano music, including first recordings of two discoveries) is now complete and available direct from Tall Poppies, or from amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, .de, .jp, etc. View reviews; for more recent reviews see under TP165 on the Tall Poppies site. Each CD has liner notes by Roy Howat in English and French. Volumes 3 & 4, on their release, each featured as CD of the week on Australian ABC Classic FM, as did Volume 4 on Radio France Musique ("Disque de la semaine"). Contents:
Vol. 1 (TP 094): Images series 1 & 2, Etudes Books 1 & 2, and Etude retrouvée
Vol. 2 (TP 123): Preludes Book 2, Images of 1894, the "2nd Suite Bergamasque" of 1904 (ending with L'isle joyeuse), and 3 pieces of 1914–15
Vol. 3 (TP 164): Preludes Book 1, Estampes, Pour le piano, and other pieces of 1904–10, and première recording of Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon
Vol. 4 (TP165): 'The Youthful Debussy', comprising all the early piano works up to 1892 (with première recording of the 1880 Intermède), plus Children's corner
Emmanuel Chabrier, Joyeuse Marche. Joyeuse Marche and 3 Valses Romantiques (duet and 2 pianos with Wendy Hiscocks), plus the solo Pièces pittoresques, Bourrée fantasque and other works. Annotations in English by Roy Howat. Editions STIL (Paris), 0306SAN94. Available in continental Europe; in other countries can be ordered from websites like FNAC. Otherwise e-mail for enquiries.
Link to Roy Howat's Dover Edition of Chabrier's piano music
Music by Johann Carl Eschmann, including the 2 sets of Schumannesque Fantasiestücke op. 6 & op. 9, with David Lee, horn and Oliver Lewis, violin. Guild Records, GCMD 7171.
Music by Philipp Christoph Kayser; Roy Howat plays in the 2 Sonatas for piano, violin and 2 horns, with Oliver Lewis, David Lee and Christopher Davies. Guild Records, GCDM 7163. (These 2 links include sound clips; the disks are also available on amazon.)
DVD:
How to improve your tone and play without pain (1985) Brigitte Wild (1908–1994), pupil and assistant of Claudio Arrau, demonstrates and discusses piano technique with pianist Roy Howat. E-mail enquiries or orders to Astra Communications, UK
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