Edition of the Faure Requiem?
  • kevinfkevinf
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    We'll be doing Gabriel Faure's Requiem for an All Soul's Day concert this year. There are a number of reputable editions. Anyone have any experience with the Rutter edition or other editions?
  • Marc Cerisier
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    The new(ish) Bärenreiter edition is wonderful.
  • OrganistRob320OrganistRob320
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    The Rutter edition has worked well for me if you are limited to organ only accompaniment. The Sanctus needs to be reworked using organ only (unless you can find someone to duet the movement) but the choral parts are just fine and legible even for older eyes.
  • melofluentmelofluent
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    Rutter was acknowledged by no less than Salamunovich as a Faure scholar of the first rate. Having done the Faure three times, the latest two the Rutter, I endorse it.
  • BruceL
    Posts: 1,072
    I like the Rutter, having sung it, played it, and conducted it. Nice looking edition and not too rich. If you don't have Barenreiter money, Rutter is the obvious choice.
  • kevinfkevinf
    Posts: 1,191
    Thanks all. Rutter it is.
  • ghmus7
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    One thing about the Rutter is that is restores the original orchestration - no violins.
    However, strangely, there a violin part in the Sanctus I think. I would assume that Faure expected a violist to double.
  • MaryAnn Carr WilsonMaryAnn Carr Wilson
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    I heart Bärenreiter but agree it's costly.
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
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    The Philip Legge edition at CPDL is excellent, scholarly ... and free.
    Thanked by 2francis BruceL
  • OlbashOlbash
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    Agreed. And he made his Finale files available on CPDL as well, which has proven helpful to me. A few years back, I had a children's choir sing the soprano line on In Paradisum, and it was so easy to use his Finale file to tease out a simple 1-2 page edition of that movement for the kids.
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen BruceL
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