Top 5 Favorite Ravel Works

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springrite

#20
June 01, 2015, 09:50:29 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 01, 2015, 09:48:13 AM
*Wonders if Karl will make a list...

He will name the five works featuring the clarinet prominently, starting with Bolero.
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

North Star

#21
June 01, 2015, 09:51:54 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on June 01, 2015, 09:47:01 AM
I still have some catch-up, it is true.  But I did hear a fellow student sing the Chansons madécasses on a recital when I was a freshman at the College of Wooster  0:)

Clearly it made a lasting impression.  ::)
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

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ZauberdrachenNr.7

#22
June 01, 2015, 09:55:48 AM
Tombeau
Ma mère l'oye
SQ
Piano Trio
Gaspard de la Nuit

and because I so deserve it, a sixth (also because it's short) Pièce en Forme de Habanera (Often when I hear it I think of 1.) Ravel thinking of his mum who was Basque and lived in Madrid AND 2.) about the fascination French composers share for things Spanish)

Christo

#23
June 01, 2015, 09:56:39 AM
Quote from: springrite on June 01, 2015, 09:50:29 AMHe will name the five works featuring the clarinet prominently, starting with Bolero.

* pounding the table / chortle
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Karl Henning

#24
June 01, 2015, 10:05:50 AM
Quote from: North Star on June 01, 2015, 09:51:54 AM
Clearly it made a lasting impression.  ::)

It did, have loved them ever since.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

North Star

#25
June 01, 2015, 10:09:55 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on June 01, 2015, 10:05:50 AM
It did, have loved them ever since.
Alright, I got the impression that it was the last time you heard the piece.  :)

Quote from: sanantonio on June 01, 2015, 09:48:55 AM
Ma mère l'oye (either for solo piano or orchestrated)
I prefer the piano four hands version myself.  8)
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Mr Bloom

#26
June 01, 2015, 10:52:04 AM
Sonata for violin and piano n°2
Piano trio
Sonate for violin and  cello
Chansons madécasses
Gaspard de la nuit

Lisztianwagner

#27
June 01, 2015, 11:29:46 AM
La Valse
Miroirs
Daphnis et Chloé
Piano Concerto for the left hand
Gaspard de la nuit
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Mandryka

#28
June 01, 2015, 11:59:08 AM Last Edit: June 01, 2015, 12:01:52 PM by Mandryka
L hand concerto
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Medecasses
3 Mallarmé songs
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Sergeant Rock

#29
June 01, 2015, 12:28:28 PM
Rapsodie espagnole
String Quartet
La valse
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version)

the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Jo498

#30
June 01, 2015, 12:56:30 PM
I always confuse the Spanish pieces Rapsodie Espagnole und Alborada, therefore I picked La Valse...
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

Ken B

#31
June 01, 2015, 03:03:11 PM
Piano Concerto
Bolero
Other Piano Concerto

I guess the quartet and trio if I must have five.

EigenUser

#32
June 01, 2015, 03:26:00 PM
Introduction and Allegro for Flute, Clarinet, Harp, and String Quartet (surprised that no one picked this yet!)
Left-Hand PC
Le Tombeau de Couperin (I love both versions, but the piano version is one of my favorite solo piano works ever)
String Quartet
La Valse
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

TheGSMoeller

#33
June 01, 2015, 04:13:21 PM
Both Piano Concertos
Daphnis
Bolero
La Valse, his best work.

NJ Joe

#34
June 01, 2015, 04:32:13 PM
Daphnis Et Chloe (complete)
Alborada del gracioso (orch)
Rapsodie Espagnole
Ma Mere L'Oye (orch)
La Valse

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-David Byrne

Ken B

#35
June 01, 2015, 04:33:55 PM
Quote from: EigenUser on June 01, 2015, 03:26:00 PM
Introduction and Allegro for Flute, Clarinet, Harp, and String Quartet (surprised that no one picked this yet!)
Left-Hand PC
Le Tombeau de Couperin (I love both versions, but the piano version is one of my favorite solo piano works ever)
String Quartet
La Valse
What?? Not La Mer?



:laugh:

Cato

#36
June 01, 2015, 04:39:04 PM

Le Tombeau de Couperin (both versions)
String Quartet
Gaspard de la nuit
Daphnis et Chloé
L'enfant et les sortilèges

Actually, my favorite Ravel works are by Poulenc!
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Ken B

#37
June 01, 2015, 05:10:46 PM
Quote from: Cato on June 01, 2015, 04:39:04 PM

Actually, my favorite Ravel works are by Poulenc!

Cato

#38
June 01, 2015, 05:47:28 PM
Quote from: Ken B on June 01, 2015, 05:10:46 PM


Heh-heh!  Well, that was easy!  ;)
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Daverz

#39
June 01, 2015, 06:21:14 PM
Piano Trio.  I can think of few works as beautiful and as perfect.
Ma Mere L'Oye ballet
Daphnis et Chloe
Piano Music (cheating, but the solo piano music fits on 2 discs).  Favorites are Gaspard, Sonatine, Valses, and Tombeau.
Scheherazade
String Quartet
Duo for Violin and Cello
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