Complete Songs (Medium Voice): The Complete Verlaine Settings, Urtext (Edition Peters, 3)

Gabriel Faure’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. The present edition contains the three individual settings _Claire de lune_ , _Spleen_ and _Prison_ together with the, Op. 58 “Venetian” songs and the magnificient cycle _La Bonne Chanson_. With its focus both practical and scholarly, this new Complete Edition of songs aims to encourage creative, confident and wellinformed performance. Founded on study of hundreds of manuscripts and printed sources, it has been tested internationally in masterclasses, workshops, seminars, concerts and recordings. in this it takes a lead from the composer, who prepared his own editions on the basis of performing experience. The edition also assimilates interpretative insights from musicians who worked with Faur and eacute, as well as from his documented performing preferences. * Clair de lune (Menuet) (Op. 46, No. 2) * Spleen (Op. 51, No. 3) * Prison (Op. 68, No. 1 [Op. 83, No. 1]) * Cinq melodies [“de Venise”] (Op. 58) * Mandoline * En sourdine * Green * A Clymene * C’est l’extase * La Bonne Chanson (Op. 61) * Une Sainte en son aureole * Puisque l’aube grandit * La lune blanche luit dans les bois * J’allais par des chemins perfides * J’ai presque peur, en verite * Avant que tu ne t’en ailles * Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d’ete * N’est-ce pas? * L’hiver a cesse * Manufacturer ID: EP11393B * Format: Medium Voice * Instrumentation: Piano, Medium Voice * Urtext / Critical Edition