This volume includes 'Ma Mere L'oye' (Mother Goose) 'Valse Nobles Et Sentimentales' and Ravel's own piano transcription of his world-famous 'La Valse'. Intermediate and advanced pianists will welcome this superb compilation of piano classics reproduced from authoritative French scores.

Par RAVEL MAURICE. It was unmistakably Liszt’s piano piece “Les jeux d’eau à 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. It was unmistakably Liszt’s piano piece “Les jeux d’eau à 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. It was unmistakably Liszt’s piano piece “Les jeux d’eau à 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. / Niveau : 5 / Répertoire / Piano

Maurice Ravel's Gaspard De La Nuit is one of the most important Piano works of the 20th century and constitutes the height of the extension of the pianistic playing techniques and tonal possibilites which was already begun by Chopin and Liszt in the 19th century. The three movements Ondine Le Gibet and Scarbo are based on poems by Aloysius Bertrand which Ravel put in front of each of the three pieces. Thus too the work is in a tradition represented by composers such as Schumann and Liszt in the 19th century that combines instrumental music with literary models. For the new edition published by the Wiener Urtext Edition the editorsconsulted not only the first edition used almost exclusively up to now but also Ravel's autograph as well as his personal copy of the first edition on the basis of which numerous passages in the musical text could be corrected and brought closer to Ravel's original intention. In addition the editors included corrections from personal copies of various students of Ravel. Entries of the composer going well beyond mere text corrections and practical performance tips handed down by his students are analysed in the Notes of Interpretation. The reader-friendly large-format Wiener Urtext edition is completed by a trilingual glossary of the French performance instructions used by Ravel as well as English and German translations of Bertrand's three poems.

Par RAVEL MAURICE. Selon les propres dires de Ravel, il ne faut pas faire trop grand cas du titre étrange apposé à cette petite pièce pour piano composée en 1899, 'Pavane pour une infante défunte'. Il fut choisi par Ravel avant tout pour le 'plaisir de faire une allitération' en 'assemblant les mots' qui le composent. Il reconnut toutefois également que cette musique évoque 'une pavane qu'aurait pu danser telle petite princesse jadis, à la cour d'Espagne'. Cette pièce facile, mais d'un effet prodigieux, connut une popularité hors du commun après sa création en 1902, dont témoignent les nombreux arrangements de l'oeuvre, et la version pour petit orchestre de la plume du compositeur. Nous proposons l'oeuvre dans sa version d'origine, en parfait complément à notre programme Ravel. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Répertoire / Piano

Par RAVEL MAURICE. Maurice Ravel semble avoir été particulièrement attiré par l?atmosphère musicale de Vienne. Entre le commencement d?une ?uvre, en 1906, qui devait s?intituler Wien et son achèvement sous le titre de La Valse, en 1920, il écrivit les Valses nobles et sentimentales pour piano en 1911. Ravel orchestra les Valses en 1912 qui, du même coup, se transformèrent en ballet au titre de Adélaïde ou le langage des fleurs. / Date parution : 2022-07-23/ Répertoire / Piano

Music Minus One Piano-Written in 1941 Maurice Ravel's piano trio was premiered on January 28 1915 in Paris with distinguished pianist Alfredo Casella playing the piano part. Filled with Basque themes and Ravel's unique impressionist effects the four-movement trio is a wonderful piece which is in its own way reminiscent at times of his famous Gaspard de la Nuit. Highly recommended for any devotée of the famous French composer. Includes a high-quality printed solo part and a compact disc containing a complete performance with soloist then a second version with the accompaniment minus you the soloist. Performed by Edwin Hymovitz piano Accompaniment: The Vardi Trio: Emanuel Vardi violin AlanShulman violoncello

for Solo Piano-Virtuoso pianist and arranger Matthieu Cognets transcription integrates Ravels own piano realizations of La Valse originally conceived as a ballet for orchestra into an idiomatic and brilliant solo piano arrangement for the first time. Theedition includes Mr. Cognets fingerings to aid the performer in executing some of the more challenging passages.

Maurice Ravel wrote his Menuet Sur Le Nom D'Haydn in September 1909 to commemorate the Viennese classicist who died 100 years before on 31 May 1809. The piece was published for the first time in connection with an 'Hommage à Joseph Haydn' in the Revue musicale to which several contemporaries of Ravel contributed as well. The original edition still in use today was published shortly after. A comparison with the composer's autograph currently in France and privately owned clearly shows the errors and shortcomings of the two first editions so that Ravel's musical intentions can now be published in full measure for the first timein the present new critical edition.

Maurice Ravel semble avoir été particulièrement attiré par l'atmosphère musicale de Vienne. Entre le commencement d'une 'uvre, en 1906, qui devait s'intituler Wien et son achèvement sous le titre de La Valse, en 1920, il écrivit les Valses nobles et sentimentales pour piano en 1911. Ravel orchestra les Valses en 1912 qui, du même coup, se transformèrent en ballet au titre de Adélaïde ou le langage des fleurs. / Partitions classique / Piano - instruments à clavier / Piano / DURAND

pour piano. Par RAVEL MAURICE. ?Musique française? est une collection conçue pour les étudiants, les professeurs et les interprètes professionnels. Les volumes, qui présentent une analyse des chefs-d??uvre de la musique française, offrent de précieux conseils d?interprétation et des commentaires de caractère historique et stylistique rédigés par de grands professeurs. Maurice Ravel (1875?1937) écrivit la Pavane pour une infante défunte au début de l?année 1899, à Paris. La dédicataire est l?épouse du Prince Edmond de Polignac, en réalité Winnaretta Singer (1875?1943), fille du fabricant américain de machines à coudre de la marque Singer. La popularité de la Pavane fut immédiate et tenace. Les nombreux arrangements qu?elle engendra témoignent de l?intérêt d?un public musicien. / Date parution : 2022-10-12/ Répertoire / Piano

This new Urtext edition by the leading Ravel scholar Roger Nichols is based on all available manuscript and printed sources and the first recording (1932) made under Ravel’s supervision. It includes a historical preface in which Roger Nichols considers the origins or the work and early public reaction and a critical commentary.