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.

Dieses Werk das Ravel 1899 ursprünglich für Klavier solo komponierte und das bei Demets verlegt wurde erzielte rasch großen Erfolg und gilt seitdem als eines der beliebtesten Werke im klassischen Kanon.Die kritische Edition der „ Pavane “ von Regina Back und Douglas Woodfull-Harris berücksichtigt die diversen Nachdrucke der originalen Klavierfassung ebenso wie die handschriftliche Partitur der Orchesterfassung von 1909 und die zahlreichen Nachdrucke bis Ravels Tod 1937. Im Vorwort zeichnen die Herausgeber die Geschichte der Komposition nach. Auch die Klaviereinspielung des Komponisten und die zu seinen Lebzeiten unterseiner Leitung entstandenen Orchesteraufnahmen wurden herangezogen.Ein Vorwort in Englisch Französisch und Deutsch Faksimileseiten und ein Kritischer Bericht runden diese wichtige neue Ergänzung des Bärenreiter Urtext-Programms ab.- Erste kritische Edition von Ravels Meisterwerk- Faksimileseiten- Dreisprachiges Vorwort (engl./ franz./dt)

for the Left Hand for Piano and Orchestra Piano reduction and solo part-In 1929 Paul Wittgenstein a pianist and war veteran who lost his right arm in the Great War commissioned Maurice Ravel to write a concerto for him to perform. The result was one of Ravel’s most thrilling compositions and for Wittgenstein the most important of the many works he commissioned over the course of his career.This scholarly-critical edition of Ravel’s Piano Concerto For The Left Hand is based on previously inaccessible and unknown sources. The editor Douglas Woodfull-Harris was able to consult manuscripts in the private library of the Paul Wittgenstein Estate which allowed him to retrace the work’s evolutionfrom Ravel’s autograph working copy to the first printed edition.A source of key importance to our new edition is a handwritten French copy of Ravel’s own Piano reduction (the autograph is inaccessible) that he gave to Wittgenstein to facilitate rehearsing the work. This copy is the sole source reflecting Wittgenstein’s own interpretation and containing his changes to the final cadenza. It also helps us to understand omissions in the first edition of the score as well as the Piano reduction and enabled the editor amongst other things to correct a great many notes which could be found in previous editions including the solo Piano part.The Piano reduction in our edition contains both Ravel’s and Wittgenstein’s fingering. Also included is a solo part without fingering thereby giving pianists the opportunity to enter their own fingering after having studied those of Ravel and Wittgenstein.Score and orchestral parts in large format (25.5 x 32.5 cm)Includes source descriptions and a Critical Commentary with alternative readings (Eng)Informative Introduction on the work’s history and genesis (Ger/Eng/Fr)With facsimile pagesPiano reduction with separate Urtext solo part enclosedFull score & parts (BA7881) and two-Piano reduction (BA7881-90) available for sale

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.

Ravel was not only a master craftsman of exquisitely constructed chamber works but he was also a key innovator inspired by the tonal/atonal experiments of Schoenberg Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School. This is most closely reflected in the remarkable Mallarmé Poems Ravel's closest approach to the modernist innovations. Elsewhere his Piano Trio presents a perfect example of the delicacy and intricacy of Ravel's chamber music. Joined by several other full chamber pieces this is music that presents Ravel at his most musically ambitious brought together for the first time in one large-format attractively-priced volume.

Après Gaspard de la nuit, l?oeuvre pour piano de Ravel se distingue par un abandon d?une conception impressionniste de l?instrument. La sonorité pianistique devient plus sèche. Les Valses nobles et sentimentales marquent ce tournant avec une musique aux contours plus nets et aux harmonies plus crues. Ravel a souvent été stimulé par la musique des compositeurs qu?il admirait. Dans les deux courts pastiches A la manière de..., il montre ses talents de `faussaire` en saisissant, par delà l?esprit, les spécificités techniques du langage de chacun des deux musiciens. Le Prélude est une merveilleuse miniature qui offre en vingt-sept mesures une synthèse du style et de l?expression pleine de pudeur de l?art ravélien.

Si dans Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel voulait rendre hommage à l?origine à l?esprit de la musique française du XVIIIe siècle, les circonstances historiques firent que chacune des six pièces de cette suite se transforma en un hommage aux différents amis tombés sur le front pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. La version pour piano de La Valse reste encore trop méconnue des pianistes. Il s?agit de la première rédaction de l?oeuvre pour orchestre si célèbre. Cette partition reste la dernière écrite par Ravel pour le piano solo, / Classique / Partition /

Compilation de 43 ?uvres Classique de compositeurs français pour piano solo.' Livre de 160 pages.' ?uvres françaises du 17ème au 20ème siècles avec des compositeurs tels que Ravel, Debussy ou encore Bizet.' / Variétés / Partition /

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

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.

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

This work was given its world premiere by Ricardo Vines on April 5th 1902 and was the first of Ravel's works to achieve real popularity. It is dedicated to the Princess Edmond de Polignac a painter and wealthy member of the French aristocracy. The Pavane was popular in the 16th Century and during this time it became established as an introductory dance to the Galliard. It was intended to express ceremonial dignity. Ravel's version is a piece of great charm and beautiful in its poignancy.