SKU: A0.898029

Orchestration of the famous piece by Maurice Ravel for solo piano.

Instrumentation:

2 flutes + piccolo, 2 oboes + English horn, 2 clarinets + bass clarinet, 2 bassoons
4 horns, 3 trumpets
celesta, harp, timpani, tambourine, triangle
& strings

The original piece was inspired by Franz Liszt's piece Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este. Ravel explained its origins in this way: Jeux d'eau, appearing in 1901, is at the origin of the pianistic novelties which one would notice in my work. This piece, inspired by the noise of water and by the musical sounds which make one hear the sprays of water, the cascades, and the brooks [...]

SKU: A0.1114946

Orchestration of Ravel's piano piece Noctuelles' from the piano suite Miroirs. Noctuelles is a highly chromatic work, maintaining a dark, nocturnal mood throughout. The middle section is calm with rich, chordal melodies, and the recapitulation takes place a fifth below the first entry. Scored for large orchestra: picc. / 2 fl. / 2 ob. / eng. h. / 2 Bb cl. / bass cl. / 2 bsn. / 4 horns / 3 tr. / 3 trbn. / b. tuba / 2 harps / celesta / glockenspiel / timpani / b. drum, triangle, tamtam, cymbals & strings.

SKU: A0.1008397

SKU: A0.1374404

Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) is a work for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, written in 1899 while the French composer was studying at the Conservatoire de Paris under Gabriel Fauré. Ravel published an orchestral version in 1910 using two flutes, an oboe, two clarinets (in B♭), two bassoons, two horns, harp, and strings.

This version has been expanded for use by community orchestras to include saxophones.