Maurice Ravel: Valses Nobles Et Sentimales: Piano: Instrumental Work

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.

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.

Although the moods may vary throughout these evocative works, the elegance and subtly shifting energies of their musical language could only be those of Maurice Ravel. To study them in this full-score edition is to become more fully aware not only of his great originality but also of the constant striving for perfection of form and style that prompted Stravinsky to compare him admiringly to the most perfect of Swiss watchmakers. The Rapsodie Espagnole was Ravel's first entirely orchestral composition. A work whose exotic fantasy and subtle craftsmanship clearly express Ravel's distinctive musical personality, it was first performed publicly at the Théâtre du Châlet in Paris in 1908, confirming the young composer's reputation as an orchestral poet of scintillating originality. In 1911 Ravel re-created for orchestra his highly successful composition for two pianos, the Mother Goose Suite, a truly magical work whose moods range from haunting desolation to tender exaltation. Similarly, Ravel recast his brilliant 1911 piano composition Valses Nobles et Sentimentales as an orchestral score in 1912 (a ballet based on its premiere that year in Paris) and arranged his evocative 1899 piano work Pavane for a Dead Princess for orchestra in 1910. The rich orchestral settings of all four works have made them popular favorites on concert stages worldwide. This superbly prepared edition brings together in one volume authoritative full scores of these four works, reprinted from original French editions. Dover (1989) republication of Rapsodie Espagnole, Ma mère l'Oye, and Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, originally published by Durand, Paris, 1908, 1911, and 1912, respectively, and of Pavane pour une infante défunte, originally published by Max Eschig, Paris, 1910.

Description 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. Songlist A La Maniere De Borodine A La Maniere De Emmanuel Chabrier La Valse Le Tombeau De Couperin [Ravel, Maurice] Ma Mere L'oyle Prelude Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales