'Virtuoso piece in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody” - thus reads Ravel's entry on 'Tzigane” in the so-called 'Autobiographical Sketch”. Composed in 1924, there are three versions of this work: with...
Ravel's multi-layered Hommage in the 'Breitkopf Urtext' In his Hommage Le Tombeau de Couperin, Ravel addresses not so much Couperin himself as the French music of the 18th century. On the other hand,...
Daphnis et Chloé 'is certainly not only one of Ravel's best works, but also one of French music's most beautiful creations,' thus, Stravinsky's view of this ballet in his memoirs, published in 1935. C...
Jean-François Monnard's new Urtext edition is based for the first time on a scholarly comparison of sources. It is based on Ravel's first draft of the score and his final handwritten score.
Jean-François Monnard's Urtext edition is the first edition of La Valse that compares all relevant sources. The first printing of the score, published in 1921, served as a model.
Click here for the original version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Ravel's ingenious compositional interpretation is still the best-known and most independent orchestration of Pictures at...
A 'firework' in Urtext After 'Boléro' and 'La Valse', a third, much-performed work by Ravel is included in the Breitkopf orchestral program - and this, of course, in a 'Breitkopf Urtext' edition, agai...
Dream Waltz 'À l'exemple de Schubert' - Ravel re-invents the waltz, inspired by Liszt, Chopin, Schumann and Chabrier, transforming the rhapsodic gyrations of the dance and sending it whirling into the...
Ravel's ingenious compositional interpretation remains to this day the best-known and most independent orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition. When the French composer turned to Mussorgsky's piano...
