Format : Vocal Score
This title is taken from the compilation French Songs And Choruses For Mixed-Voice Choir (NOV165198) These songs for unaccompanied chorus were written between December 1914 and February 1915 while Ravel was waiting to be enlisted in the army. The songs were published in 1916 but did not receive their first performance until October 1917 with a chorus assembled by Jane Bathori and her husband.The songs mark a rare foray into choral writing for Ravel the first since his ill-fated entries for the Prix de Rome (apart from the wordless choruses in Daphnis et Chloé). Part of the special interest of Trois chansons is that Ravel himselfwrote the texts for them. The first and last of the poems have an ironic humour and he clearly revelled in the use of language; the second makes repeated reference to going away to war as its dedicatee Painlevé had already done and as Ravel was then preoccupied with doing. The only other work in which Ravel set his own text to music was Noël des jouets (1905).
SKU: CA.7006900
ISBN 9790007131203.
SKU: AP.1-ADV7436
UPC: 805095074369. English.
These three songs date from 1914--1915 and were arranged for four a cappella voices by Maurice Ravel immediately after he had written the music. The songs represent Ravel's sole contribution to choral literature. Titles: Nicolette * Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis * Ronde.
SKU: RM.SL10764
ISBN 9790231097641.
SKU: AP.1-ADV7408
ISBN 9783892215639. UPC: 805095074086. English.
The Pavane for a Dead Princess is considered to be one of Ravel's most popular works. The solemn and stately court dance strutting along in an even pulse turns into a melancholic, yet not sombre dirge. The arrangement on hand is in line with the orchestral version written by Ravel himself in 1910 and constitutes part of the series Ravel for Saxophone Quartet including publications of, among others, Ma Mère L'Oye (Mother Goose), Trois Chansons (Three Songs), and Le Tombeau de Couperin.
