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Quintet for Piano & Wind Gabriel Faure arranged by Tony Turrill Piano: Ob: Cl: Bsn: Hn
Faure completed the Piano Quartet no. 1, op.17 in 1879 when he was in his mid thirties. The original is in four movements, an Allegro molto moderato full of sweeping melodies, a lively Scherzo, a short but moving Adagio and a brisk and cheerful Finale, Allegro molto. In this version, the second movement has been omitted. The Scherzo owes so much of its character to the alternation of light pizzicato and arco strings that it was felt that a wind combination would not do it justice. A wind quartet has been preferred to a trio partly for practical reasons. It allows some respite to individual players - the piece is a substantial blow even with one movement missing. Mainly, however, as it allows for the use of varied sonorities, in the hope that this will in some way offset the inevitable loss of passion that string players would bring to the party. Why rearrange what after all is a little gem in its original version? I guess that most wind players rarely play much more of Faure than the Requiem and perhaps the Masque et Bergamasque, which seems a shame. The three movements are:-
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