Faure’s Piano Quartets and Piano Quintes and Other Major Piano Quintets

Composer	Works	Composed	First Performance
Schumann	Piano Quintet Op.44	1842	1843
Brahms	Piano Quintet Op.34	1861-64	1868
Faure	Piano Quartet No.1 Op.15	1876-79	1880
Franck	Piano Quintet f-moll	1878-79	1880
Faure	Piano Quartet No.2 Op.45	1886	1887
Dvorak	Piano Quintet Op.81	1887	1888
Faure	Piano Quintet No.1 Op.89	1887-95, 1903-05	1906
Faure	Piano Quartet No.2 Op.115	1919-21	1921

Music sources：

Music sources：
Faure’s Piano Quintet No.1 had been out of print for 30 years since G.Schirmer version became out of print in 1974. Leduc published new version by Roy Howat in 2004.

Here are some quotes from the preface of Leduc New Version.
Faure planned this piano quintet as piano quartet No.3 around 1887 after he had finished his piano quartet No.2. And probably, the exposition section of 1^st movement was tried by Ysaye Quartet, and it was said more passionate than his piano quartets. However, he was not satisfied for the rest of the movement, and by other reasons, the work is eventually completed in the beginning of 1906, and officially performed by Ysaye  Quartet and Faure in March in Brussel.
Then the quintet was performed in Paris on April 30, and received great applause. After that, Faure performed this quintet twice in his life. The quintet was published by G.Schirmer as Faure was chronically dissatisfied with his Parisian publisher Julian Hamele

Roy Howat pointed out 3 major points in his editorial notes;

1. The original edition’s Score and parts are from separate sources, resulting in numerous discrepancies.

2. The manuscript, after serving as source for printed parts, was further annotated in the course of subsequent performance.

3. Issues on tempi. The first edition has only one source that has metronome markings. Roy Howat reviews other source and proposed his indications on metronome markings.

   The Tempi Comparison of Actual Modern Performance

Designated Tempi & Current Performing Tempi
	1st Movement	2nd Movement	3rd Movement
Designation of Edition	Molt moderato	Adagio	Allegretto moderato
	69	54	76
Roy Howat Suggestion		Andante
	100-112	63-76	100
Quatuor Ebene/Michel Dalberto	70	51	84
Via Nova Quartet/Jean Hubeau	80	52	96
Schubert Ensemble	95	43	92
Gunter Kehr/Werner Neuhaus /Erich Sichermann / Bernhard Braunholz /Jacqueline Eymar	77	46	83
Fine Arts Quartet/Fine Arts Quartet	80	44	78
Quatuor de l'ORTF/Germaine Thyssens-Valentin	74	47	82

Howat mentioned in his foreword that the quintet must have passionate nature quoting Louis Vierne’s comments;” Each movement was greeted by wild applause. The applause forced Gabriel Faure back to stage at least five times.”
The possibility to allow new interpretation encourages me.