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. The present edition contains the three individual settings Claire de lune, Spleen and Prison together with the Op. 58 “Venetian” songs and the magnificent cycle La Bonne Chanson.
With its focus both practical and scholarly, this new Complete Edition of songs aims to encourage creative, confident and well-informed 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 Faure 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 mélodies [“de Venise”] (Op. 58)
Mandoline
En sourdine
Green
À Clymène
C’est l’extase
La Bonne Chanson (Op. 61)
Une Sainte en son auréole
Puisque l’aube grandit
La lune blanche luit dans les bois
J’allais par des chemins perfides
J’ai presque peur, en vérité
Avant que tu ne t’en ailles
Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d’été
N’est-ce pas?
L’hiver a cessé
