Faure Chanson de Melisande

An enchanted dream - poet Charles Van Leberghe's words give us an
idea of the audience's enthusiasm at the Prince of Wales Theatre in
Piccadilly on June 21st, 1898, when the first English language
performance of Symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande by Maurice
Maeterlinck was performed, with incidental music by Gabriel Fauré.
The composer had tasked his favourite student, Charles Koechlin, with
orchestrating the score. The London theatre's small number of
musicians suited the apprentice musician's ideals of clarity and
transparency. It was 1936 before Koechlin returned to La Chanson de
Mélisande, this time to create a version with orchestra, published the
following year as a Piano-Vocal score.
Using autograph manuscripts, Roger Nichols and Otfrid Nies have
created a new edition of the Piano-Vocal reduction that includes the
text of the melody in English, French and German. The score contains
the 1898 and 1936 variations, as well as an informative preface by
Otfrid Nies.