Maurice Ravel

As a prestigious composer of the early 20th century Maurice Ravel's Pièce En Forme De Habanera transcribed for the Cello by Paul Bazelaire contains many features which continue to make the composer's music popular and loved to this day. Known for his masterful melodies and rich harmonies  Pièce En Forme De Habaneraclearly exemplifies these qualities through flourishing Cello lines and evocative chordal and rhythmic Piano accompaniments. Moreover Habanera rhythms heard throughout the piece create further excitement. All of these musical elements combine to create a highly enjoyablepiece for the Cello repertoire. In addition the clear print of separate Cello and Piano parts in this edition of Pièce En Forme De Habanera add to an irresistible purchase for budding cellists.

Detailed trilingual preface (Fr/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng).Optimum page turns.Includes a glossary (Fr/Ger/Eng).Ravel?s Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales created a stir when they were anonymously premiered in Paris?s Société nationale indépendante in 1911: many listeners thought they were by Satie or even Kodály!For our new Urtext edition of this work the famed musicologist Nicolas Southon a co-editor of the ?uvres Complètes de Gabriel Fauré has examined a large body of sources to present a musical text with many new readings.The edition contains fingering and performance notes by the French pianistAlexandre Tharaud one of today?s leading interpreters of Ravel?s music. Commentaries by pianists closely associated with Ravel such as Lucian Garban Vlado Perlemuter Robert Casadesus and Jacques Février are also included.

Five Greek folk songs set for Mezzo-Soprano with text in both French and English.

It was unmistakably Liszt?s piano piece ?Les jeux d?eau la Villa d?Este? that inspired Ravel to compose one of his most famous works in 1901: ?Jeux d?eau?. Laid out in sonata form its sound is governed by myriad motions of water and sustained by innovative highly virtuosic piano textures against a freely migrating and richly coloured harmonic backdrop. Nicolas Southon has re-evaluated the work?s many sources including memoirs from musicians close to Ravel such as Vlado Perlemuter Jacques Février and Hélène Jourdan-Morhange. Special attention has been devoted to the original part-writing in Ravel?s notation. Rounding off the new edition are an informative Foreword atrilingual glossary as well as fingering and notes on performance by Ravel specialist Alexandre Tharaud.

Collection for Violin - Werke für Violine - Raccolta per violino-Ce volume présente une sélection de pièces originales et de transcriptions d?époque qui n?avaient jamais fait l?objet d?une recollection en cahier. Ces transcriptions publiées par Durand en 1928 devinrent un véritable succès éditorial qui sevérifia lors des concerts des violonistes amateurs ou professionnels qui programmèrent aisément ces oeuvres-là. Leur variété et leur couleur - qui sans jamais renier Ravel et l?esprit de l?oeuvre dont certaines sont issues demeurent éminemmentviolonistiques - témoignent de la vitalité de la musique francaise du premier vingtième siècle et de son incontestable succès.Sommaire: Pavane pour une Infante défunte ? Menuet (extrait de la Sonatine pour piano) ? Pavane de la Belle au Bois dormant (extrait de: Ma Mère l?Oye) ? Kaddish (no. 1 des: Deux Mélodies Hébraiques) ? Rigaudon (extrait du: Tombeau de Couperin)? Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré ? Five O?Clock (fox-trot daprès: L?Enfant et les Sortileges) ? Pastourelle (daprès: L?Enfant et les Sortileges) ? Boléro ? Adagio (extrait du: Concerto pour piano et orchestre).