FAURÉ EDITIONS BY ROY HOWAT

Piano Quintet no. 1 in D minor, op. 89. Editions Hamelle, Paris, 2006 (UK distribution by United Music Publishers).

This new edition solves serious problems in the work's only extant earlier edition, problems that led to the work's neglect over the last half-century or more.  The main solution, a radically different approach to tempi, was tested in concert by Roy Howat with Prague's legendary Panocha Quartet at festivals in Japan and the Czech Republic and at a sold-out Wigmore Hall in November 2005; the work is now again bringing the house down, as it did at its Parisian premiere in 1906.

The following Fauré Critical editions and transcriptions by Roy Howat are all published by Peters Edition (London):

13 Nocturnes for piano. EP 7659

This contains literally hundreds of corrections never before printed, many from Fauré's own pen, including 20 corrections on the first page of the First Nocturne alone.

'It is hard to offer sufficient praise and gratitude to both Roy Howat and Peters Edition for their superlative, much-needed new edition of Fauré's13 Nocturnes' – Murray McLachlan in International Piano

Thème et variations for piano, op. 73. EP 7956

This new critical edition is based on at least eight important sources (six of them missed by the recent Henle edition), solves longstanding problems of tempo and structural coherence, and shows hitherto unpublished variants supplied by Fauré to pianist colleagues.

Pièces brèves op. 84 (8 pieces) for piano. EP 7601

3 Romances sans paroles op. 17 for piano. EP 7711

Anthology of Pieces for Cello and Piano (Fauré's complete pieces for accompanied cello), 8 pieces including two first publications. EP 7571

Anthology of Selected Pieces for Flute and Piano, two original pieces and eight new transcriptions, including several first publications. EP 7514

Anthology of Pieces for Violin and Piano (Fauré's complete pieces for violin & piano), 4 pieces, 1 in a first edition. EP 7515

Sonata no. 1 in A major, op. 13, for violin and piano. EP 7487:

Incorporates hundreds of previously unpublished corrections, including Fauré's violin writing before some passages were overwritten with virtuoso figurations by Hubert Léonard. More details can be read in the preface or in Roy's article in The Strad, March 1998.

Dolly op. 56, suite for piano duet. EP 7430:

Also available in transcription for solo piano by Roy Howat: EP 7384

Pavane, op. 50, in transcriptions for:

• Flute, 2 singers and piano. EP 7526

• Solo piano, arr. Roy Howat and Wendy Hiscocks. EP 7383

• Flute and piano, in Anthology of Selected Pieces for Flute and Piano (see above)
  

These editions take account of Sir Adrian Boult's memories of Fauré:

'I heard Fauré play the Pavane several times, with distinguished soloists like Gervase Elwes and Murray Davey, with Mrs George Swinton and others, and once Louis Fleury played the flute sitting by the composer and playing the tune from his piano copy. I will stake a good deal on the statement that Fauré played the Pavane no slower than crotchet [quarter] = 100!' (letter to Robert Orledge, 1975).

Après un rêve, arranged for cello or viola or violin and piano. EP 7481.

Sicilienne, op. 80, arranged for violin or viola and piano. EP 7386

Sicilienne, op. 80, arranged for flute and piano in Anthology of Selected Pieces for Flute and Piano

'Berceuse' from Dolly ('La Chanson dans le jardin') arranged for violin and piano. EP 7624

Next to appear:

13 Barcarolles for piano. Peters Edition. EP 71904