Barcarolles – Piano Solo

Gabriel Fauré’s 13 Barcarolles, composed over a period of almost four decades (1882 1921) are highly representative of his output for piano and are regarded as his most characteristic works.They reflect his breaking free from the Romantic idiom, particularly that of Chopin and Mendelssohn, developing an independent musical language in which he combined tradition and the emerging modernism.These important works arenow made available in scholarly-critical Urtext editions based on the Œuvres complètes de Gabriel Fauré and reflect the latest state of research. Detailed forewords offer information on the genesis and significance ofthecompositions as well as valuable suggestions on historical interpretation.All the available manuscript and printed sources as well as piano rolls containing recordings by the composer have been taken into consideration, leadingto new discoveries particularly regarding the Valses-Caprices.

• Based on the Œuvres complètes de Gabriel Fauré
• Based on the latest research findings and extensive source studies
• Informative forewords withadvice on performance practice (Fr/Eng/Ger)

Christophe Grabowski is a French pianist and doctor of musicology and studied in Warsaw and Paris. He has edited a volume of the Œuvres complètes de GabrielFauré and is Series Editor of the Complete Chopin: A New Critical Edition as well as two volumes of the Édition Complète des Œuvres de Claude Debussy. Together with John Rink he published the Annotated Catalogue of Chopin’s FirstEditions in 2010.