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Have fun! 8) There are no stipulations for this poll. Here is my list in no particular order:
Piano Concerto for left-hand
Piano Concerto in G
Piano Trio
Violin Sonata (No. 2)
Ma mère l'oye (orchestral version)
piano trio
concerto for the left hand
string quartet
la valse
gaspard de la nuit
Not a bad start to begin with. ;) My bet:
Menuet antique (1895, orch. 1929)
Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet, and string quartet (1905)
Daphnis et Chloé (1912)
Le tombeau de Couperin (1917, orch. 1919)
Piano Concerto in G (1929–31)
Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand
Gaspard de la nuit
Daphnis et Chloé
L'enfant et les sortilèges
La valse
Ma mere l'Oye, orchestral version
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Concerto for Piano Left Hand
La Valse
And finally, "Seventeen minutes of orchestra without any music." ;)
Piano Concerto in G
Piano Concerto for the left hand
Le Tombeau de Couperin (piano version)*
La valse
Gaspard de la Nuit
*Not too crazy about the orchestral arrangement, but the four-saxophone version by Ellipsos is a ton of fun.
I like all the love for La valse!
Quote from: jochanaan on June 01, 2015, 09:00:26 AMAnd finally, "Seventeen minutes of orchestra without any music." ;)
Like that one too. :)
1 - L'enfant et les sortileges (the echt-Ravel work, ought to be a stipulated choice, really $:) ;) )
2 - Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarme
3 - Piano Trio
4 - Piano Concerto for the Left hand
plus one of Sonata for Violin and Cello/Piano concerto in G/Chansons Madecasses/La Valse depending on my mood
L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Piano Concerto in G
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Piano Trio
Good list (i.e. nearly matches mine ;) ;) ;) )
Quote from: Luke on June 01, 2015, 09:29:49 AM
Good list (i.e. nearly matches mine ;) ;) ;) )
Your list is very nice as well,
Luke. 8)
Quote from: Luke on June 01, 2015, 09:26:36 AM
2 - Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarme
I just may have listened to these for the first time this weekend
(* hangs head in shame *)
Quote from: karlhenning on June 01, 2015, 09:36:12 AM
I just may have listened to these for the first time this weekend (* hangs head in shame *)
I suppose you have heard
Deux Mélodies hébraïques,
Chansons madécasses,
Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques, and
Histoires naturelles, though? Right? :-\
Gaspard
PC in G
PC for the left hand
Daphnes et Chloe
La Valse
I know, I am being boringly predictable.
Quote from: KarlI just may have listened to these for the first time this weekend (* hangs head in shame *)
Ravel was living at Clarens with Stravinsky when he wrote them, and it shows. From maurice-ravel.net
QuoteThey were closest in the years before the First World War. In 1913 Ravel stayed with Stravinsky at Clarens in Switzerland and they worked closely together on a performing version of Moussorgsky's Khovanshchina (now apparently lost). According to Stravinsky, on an excursion to Varèse near Lake Maggiore they couldn't find separate hotel rooms, and so slept in the same bed (Stravinsky, [1959], p.62). At the same time, Ravel was starting work on his Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, for which he used a similar ensemble of instruments to Stravinsky's in the recently completed Three Japanese lyrics. The first song in Ravel's group of Mallarmé settings, Soupir, is dedicated to Stravinsky.
(the other two are dedicated to Florent Schmitt and Satie respectively.)
Strav's Japanese Lyrics were themselves modelled in part on Pierrot Lunaire, as he told Ravel at the time, so there's a bit of a family tree going on here. They are certainly amongst Ravel's most refined, advanced, subtle and complex works, and are a really concentrated example of his style at its best. I adore them unreservedly!
Quote from: North Star on June 01, 2015, 09:42:34 AM
I suppose you have heard Deux Mélodies hébraïques, Chansons madécasses, Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques, and Histoires naturelles, though? Right? :-\
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:)
Luke, I knew that about the
Japanese Lyrics!
*Wonders if Karl will make a list...
Ma mère l'oye (either for solo piano or orchestrated)
Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarme
Piano trio in A Minor
Piano Concerto in G
Sonata for Violin and Cello
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.
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. ::)
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)
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
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.
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)
Sonata for violin and piano n°2
Piano trio
Sonate for violin and cello
Chansons madécasses
Gaspard de la nuit
La Valse
Miroirs
Daphnis et Chloé
Piano Concerto for the left hand
Gaspard de la nuit
L hand concerto
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Medecasses
3 Mallarmé songs
Rapsodie espagnole
String Quartet
La valse
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version)
I always confuse the Spanish pieces Rapsodie Espagnole und Alborada, therefore I picked La Valse...
Piano Concerto
Bolero
Other Piano Concerto
I guess the quartet and trio if I must have five.
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
Both Piano Concertos
Daphnis
Bolero
La Valse, his best work.
Daphnis Et Chloe (complete)
Alborada del gracioso (orch)
Rapsodie Espagnole
Ma Mere L'Oye (orch)
La Valse
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:
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!
Quote from: Cato on June 01, 2015, 04:39:04 PM
Actually, my favorite Ravel works are by Poulenc!
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Heh-heh! Well, that was easy! ;)
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
Quote from: Daverz on June 01, 2015, 06:21:14 PM
Duo for Violin and Cello
Glad someone mentioned this wonderful work!
Quote from: Daverz on 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
You're cheating in this list and in your Janacek list. You picked 7 works and you can only choose 5.
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 01, 2015, 06:25:30 PM
You're cheating in this list and in your Janacek list. You picked 7 works and you can only choose 5.
Can't fault the consistency though.
Quote from: springrite on June 01, 2015, 06:28:23 PM
Can't fault the consistency though.
That's certainly true. :)
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 01, 2015, 06:25:30 PM
You're cheating in this list and in your Janacek list. You picked 7 works and you can only choose 5.
Yup. I'm such a bastard! And actually I listed 10 works by name. Bwahahahaha!
Quote from: Daverz on June 01, 2015, 07:11:55 PM
Yup. I'm such a bastard! And actually I listed 10 works by name. Bwahahahaha!
>:(
Quote from: Daverz on June 01, 2015, 07:11:55 PM
Yup. I'm such a bastard! And actually I listed 10 works by name. Bwahahahaha!
And I bet you change the list daily too!
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Miroirs
Gaspard de la Nuit
I'm not 100% certain what would occupy the other places. Some of the chamber works, I don't feel I'm familiar enough with yet to know how I'd rank them (and I don't know the Introduction and Allegro at all, which many people rank very highly indeed).
But hey, one of my favourite concertos and 2 of the greatest piano suites ever written isn't a bad start. And it's not as if there aren't plenty of fine works close on the heels of these ones.
Quote from: springrite on June 01, 2015, 06:24:27 PM
Glad someone mentioned this wonderful work!
I had done so, too.
Quote from: sanantonio on June 01, 2015, 09:48:55 AM
Ma mère l'oye (either for solo piano or orchestrated)
Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarme
Piano trio in A Minor
Piano Concerto in G
Sonata for Violin and Cello
???
Me too. And I said it first. *sniff*
;) ;)
Quote from: EigenUser on June 01, 2015, 03:26:00 PMIntroduction and Allegro for Flute, Clarinet, Harp, and String Quartet (surprised that no one picked this yet!)
Actually, this no-one did: ;)
Quote from: Christo on June 01, 2015, 08:36:16 AM Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet, and string quartet (1905)
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Daphnis and Chloe
Introduction and Allegro or Gaspard de la Nuit.
Ma Mere L'Oye (orch)
Bolero 8)
Quote from: vandermolen on June 02, 2015, 11:13:57 AMBolero 8)
Fabulous piece, no reason for snobbishness. You're not the only one to like it:
Quote from: jochanaan on June 01, 2015, 09:00:26 AMAnd finally, "Seventeen minutes of orchestra without any music." ;)
Quote from: Christo on June 01, 2015, 09:06:46 AMLike that one too. :)
Quote from: karlhenning on June 01, 2015, 09:08:25 AM+1
EDIT:
Quote from: Ken B on June 03, 2015, 05:42:30 PMHey! I picked Bolero too! *grumbles*
Fixed:
Quote from: Ken B on June 01, 2015, 03:03:11 PMBolero
:)
Edit - even one more:
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on June 03, 2015, 05:32:31 PMCount me in... I've always liked it, ever since first time I heard it, over twenty years ago now I'm guessing.
L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
Concerto in G
Gaspard de la Nuit
Scheherazade
Bolero
Quote from: Christo on June 02, 2015, 11:25:47 AM
Fabulous piece, no reason for snobbishness. You're not the only one to like it:
Count me in...
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on June 01, 2015, 04:13:21 PM
Bolero
I've always liked it, ever since first time I heard it, over twenty years ago now I'm guessing.
Hey! I picked Bolero too!
*grumbles*
Has Bolero become The Spice Girls of classical music? It's cool to not like it, but somehow it sells millions of records and sells out concert halls.
Bolero has been criticized for monotony, and Ravel himself thought it exhibited "no form, properly speaking, no development, no or almost no modulation." But though the last of these are true, the work in fact demonstrates a perfect understanding of a classical double-variation form, in this case in which the variations are confined primarily to changes in orchestral timbre, but they preserve the momentum found in the classical variation form where the phrase structure of the theme (in this case two themes) remains constant. Typically a classical variation structure will conclude with some departure from the momentum of maintaining this constant phrase structure (such as a concluding fugue), and here Ravel breaks the momentum by the sudden modulation from C major to E. The piece also succeeds because, against the monotony of the snare-drum figure, both the main and secondary themes exhibit considerable melodic and rhythmic asymmetry, and very little internal repetition. See for instance how the placement of the G in measures 3 and 4 offsets the stability of the basic 3/4 rhythm:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bol%C3%A9ro_(Ravel)
(Ravel's approach in Bolero is very different from that of Britten in the YPG, where the variations do not preserve the phrase structure of the main theme, but instead each develops various motifs from the theme in what amounts to a set of free fantasias on it. At the same time, as a gesture to the classical method, Britten concludes his piece with a nifty little fugue.)
Yep, all of that. Saying that Bolero is monotonous misses the fact that the "monotony" actually consists of a couple of first-class melodies that have enormous interest in and of themselves.
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on June 03, 2015, 05:58:30 PM
Has Bolero become The Spice Girls of classical music? It's cool to not like it, but somehow it sells millions of records and sells out concert halls.
I like the Spice Girls too. 8)
Quote from: vandermolen on June 04, 2015, 01:01:57 PM
I like the Spice Girls too. 8)
And we learn this
here, on a
Ravel thread??!! 0:)
Quote from: karlhenning on June 05, 2015, 01:45:05 AM
And we learn this here, on a Ravel thread??!! 0:)
Doubtless he is referring to Ravel's spicier heroines: Conception, Scheherazade, the cats in L'Enfant (but not the Princess, or for that matter Chloe).
Bolero, like many masterpieces, looks both backward and forward. Yes, it is a variation set in which the only parameter changed is the orchestration; but I also see it as a proto-minimalist composition in which the long, slow crescendo builds tremendous excitement. I wonder if Glass, Reich et al acknowledge its influence. 8)
Quote from: karlhenning on June 05, 2015, 01:45:05 AM
And we learn this here, on a Ravel thread??!! 0:)
hehe - but I am a lateral thinker
Karl 8)
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on June 05, 2015, 03:11:00 AM
Doubtless he is referring to Ravel's spicier heroines: Conception, Scheherazade, the cats in L'Enfant (but not the Princess, or for that matter Chloe).
You got this absolutely right! 8)
Well, by all accounts, Ida Rubinstein, who commissioned the Bolero as a ballet, was pretty spicy. :o ;D
Quote from: vandermolen on June 04, 2015, 01:01:57 PM
I like the Spice Girls too. 8)
I think Posh Spice and Scary Spice are hot. Just sayin'. :D
Wait! I like Bolero too...!! 0:)
Quote from: Mirror Image on June 23, 2015, 04:45:19 PM
I think Posh Spice and Scary Spice are hot. Just sayin'. :D
What? No love for Baby Spice? I mean how hot was it to have an adult pretend to be a lollipop sucking child?
Quote from: Moonfish on June 23, 2015, 05:11:27 PM
Wait! I like Bolero too...!! 0:)
It's settled then, Bolero is a masterpiece!
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on June 26, 2015, 07:13:37 AMIt's settled then, Bolero is a masterpiece!
Exacly ten opinions by now to support the verdict.
Boléro must be a masterpiece. 8)
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on June 26, 2015, 07:13:37 AM
What? No love for Baby Spice? I mean how hot was it to have an adult pretend to be a lollipop sucking child?
You ask Pee-Wee Herman.
Quote from: karlhenning on June 30, 2015, 03:54:48 AM
You ask Pee-Wee Herman.
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My list has changed since the last one, so...
(In no particular order)
Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Piano Concerto for the left-hand
L'enfant et les sortilèges
Shéhérazade
Violin Sonata
Who knows what my list will look like tomorrow.
My order of Sheherazade is on its way, and I now have my eye on a particular version of the Poemes (which I'd not heard before) after streaming.
Quote from: orfeo on February 22, 2016, 12:14:31 PM
My order of Sheherazade is on its way, and I now have my eye on a particular version of the Poemes (which I'd not heard before) after streaming.
Shéhérazade is, and pardon me for saying this, absolutely orgasmic. It's sumptuous, exotic, and completely engulfing in its seduction.
Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé is a darker hued work but no less attractive for it. It's beguiling!
Frontispice
Daphnis et Chloe
Le Tombeau de Couperin (either version)
Shéhérazade
Ma mère l'Oye
Quote from: ComposerOfAvantGarde on February 22, 2016, 09:56:28 PM
Frontispice
Daphnis et Chloe
Le Tombeau de Couperin (either version)
Shéhérazade
Ma mère l'Oye
Great list,
CoAG! Nice to see
Frontispice appear here...a wonderful, enigmatic composition. Have you heard the Boulez orchestration? AFAIK, Boulez's only published arrangement of another composer's work. IIRC. there's actually two versions, this one for reduced forces and another for full orchestra.
https://www.youtube.com/v/dYdOjdP5-oI
THREAD DUTY:My list (now) would be:
-
Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé-
Ma mère l'Oye- L
e Tombeau de Couperin (both versions)
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Concerto for the left hand-
La Valse
L'enfant et les sortilèges
Daphnis et Chloé
Piano Concerto in G
Gaspard de la nuit
Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Quote from: ritter on February 22, 2016, 11:48:55 PM
Great list, CoAG! Nice to see Frontispice appear here...a wonderful, enigmatic composition. Have you heard the Boulez orchestration? AFAIK, Boulez's only published arrangement of another composer's work. IIRC. there's actually two versions, this one for reduced forces and another for full orchestra.
https://www.youtube.com/v/dYdOjdP5-oI
THREAD DUTY:
My list (now) would be:
- Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
- Ma mère l'Oye
- Le Tombeau de Couperin (both versions)
- Concerto for the left hand
- La Valse
I know that arrange mn conducted by Pintscher on that video, but I didn't know there was another one! I'm very familiar with the original version which I think is Ravel's most alluring work of them all.
L'enfant et les sortilèges
Daphnis et Chloé
Concerto en sol majeur
Concerto pour la main gauche
i.e. his four unequivocal masterpieces.
Tricky word, unequivocal. Before you know it, someone will come along and equivocate.
Quote from: orfeo on February 24, 2016, 12:02:00 AM
Tricky word, unequivocal. Before you know it, someone will come along and equivocate.
Hah!
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 22, 2016, 10:23:12 AM
My list has changed since the last one, so...
(In no particular order)
Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Piano Concerto for the left-hand
L'enfant et les sortilèges
Shéhérazade
Violin Sonata
Who knows what my list will look like tomorrow.
Yep...this is still a damn fine list I made here. 8)
String Quartet
Piano Trio
Ma mere l'oye (orch.)
Introduction and allegro for harp, string quartet, flute and clarinet
Piano Concerto in G
Quote from: ChamberNut on February 26, 2016, 03:21:09 PM
String Quartet
Piano Trio
Ma mere l'oye (orch.)
Introduction and allegro for harp and strings
Piano Concerto in G
Great list, Ray! Have you heard the original
Introduction and Allegro? It's written for string quartet, harp, flute, and clarinet. Definitely worth checking out (if you haven't already).
I haven't heard as much Ravel as most of the members here will have. And of what I have heard it's been limited to a small number of performances. So with that in mind...
Piano Trio in A minor
String Quartet in F
Piano Concerto in G
Gaspard de la Nuit (I've a CD featuring Michelangeli playing this - late 50s, mono, perhaps via the BBC? - that I find wonderful)
Daphnis et Chloé
Quote from: Monsieur Croche on February 23, 2016, 10:32:44 PM
L'enfant et les sortilèges
Daphnis et Chloé
Concerto en sol majeur
Concerto pour la main gauche
i.e. his four unequivocal masterpieces.
Pictures at an Exhibition--Ravel's orchestral arrangement of Mussorgsky's piano work
Rapsodie espagnole
String Quartet
Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet
Tzigane
Quote from: Mirror Image on February 26, 2016, 03:45:09 PM
Great list, Ray! Have you heard the original Introduction and Allegro? It's written for string quartet, harp, flute, and clarinet. Definitely worth checking out (if you haven't already).
My bad, John. I've edited my post to include the flute and clarinet. ;D
Quote from: Xenophanes on February 26, 2016, 04:52:39 PM
Pictures at an Exhibition--Ravel's orchestral arrangement of Mussorgsky's piano work
Rapsodie espagnole
String Quartet
Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet
Tzigane
A nice list, indeed. And yes, for sure Pictures at an Exhibition! The Tzigane almost made my list.
Quote from: ChamberNut on February 27, 2016, 04:45:32 AM
My bad, John. I've edited my post to include the flute and clarinet. ;D
So you did. Great! 8)
One of my longstanding faves!! And an abundance of riches to choose from ..
off the top of my head at this moment ..
Daphnis et Chloé
Pavane
Piano Concerto
String Quartet
Jeux d'eau
Quote from: James on February 29, 2016, 09:29:05 AM
Either one - they are both great.
When you're right, you're right.
I've got to update my favorites list:
Violin Sonata
L'enfant et les sortilèges
Piano Concerto in G
Piano Concerto for the left-hand
Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
La Valse
Rapsodie Espagnole
Alborado delGracioso
Daphnis & Chloe
Piano Concerto in G
Quote from: ChamberNut on February 27, 2016, 04:47:12 AM
A nice list, indeed. And yes, for sure Pictures at an Exhibition! The Tzigane almost made my list.
Nice to hear from you ChamberNut, we were missing you
Sonata for violin and Cello
Pavane pour une infante defunte
Concerto pour la main gauche
Chansons madecasses et chansons sur des melodies grecques
L'enfant et les sortileges
Difficult to put Gaspard de la nuit aside...
Quote from: North Star on February 29, 2016, 09:34:06 AM
When you're right, you're right.
You haven't touched your pea soup.
1. Miroirs
2. Miroirs
3. Miroirs
4. Miroirs
5. Miroirs
Oh, and did I mention Miroirs?
Quote from: Alberich on September 23, 2016, 01:48:03 AM
1. Miroirs
2. Miroirs
3. Miroirs
4. Miroirs
5. Miroirs
Oh, and did I mention Miroirs?
You could always list the pieces in it individually. 8)
Gaspard de la nuit
Sonata for Violin and Cello
Either Piano Concerto
Piano Trio
Daphnis et Chloé
In the first place, the Piano concerto for the left hand: Awesome, so original
Daphnis et Chloé
Introduction and Allegro
Pavane
Le tombeau de Couperin
Quote from: Mirror Image on September 03, 2016, 06:44:35 AM
I've got to update my favorites list:
Violin Sonata
L'enfant et les sortilèges
Piano Concerto in G
Piano Concerto for the left-hand
Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
I'm still highly satisfied with these picks. 8) I've finally arrived at that point where I've added/subtracted enough times to where there's nothing left to change.
Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on January 11, 2017, 08:08:42 PM
Daphnis et Chloé
Miroirs
Gaspard de la nuit
Piano Concerto
String Quartet (despite it's over popularity, I still like this one)
Introduction et allegro
La Valse
Spanish Rhapsody
(That's of the top of my head, forget Bolero :laugh: )
Out of curiosity, why do you always pick more than the number you're allotted? The whole purpose of these kinds of threads is to narrow down our favorites and find out what works have meant the most to us, but you have done quite the reverse.
Right now -
Piano Trio (I still think this sounds so fresh, modern, timeless)
Piano Concerto in G
Gaspard
Sonata for Violin and Cello
Daphnis et Chloé
Quote from: ørfeo on June 02, 2015, 07:42:08 AM
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Miroirs
Gaspard de la Nuit
I'm not 100% certain what would occupy the other places. Some of the chamber works, I don't feel I'm familiar enough with yet to know how I'd rank them (and I don't know the Introduction and Allegro at all, which many people rank very highly indeed).
But hey, one of my favourite concertos and 2 of the greatest piano suites ever written isn't a bad start. And it's not as if there aren't plenty of fine works close on the heels of these ones.
I had always meant to flesh this out, and I've failed dismally. I had a period of listening to absolutely everything Ravel (which takes a lot less time than it would with many other composers), but that was August. Since November I've been completely drowning myself in all the new music I bought from Presto and I wouldn't be confident in my memory of some of the things I heard for the first time in August.
I might just have to force myself into another round of listening...
I do remember being quite taken with two chamber works I wasn't familiar with: the
Introduction and Allegro, and the sonata for violin and cello. But whether they would outrank some other works, well... I might be forced to take extensive listening trials to figure that out.
Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on January 12, 2017, 02:40:45 PM
Sorry if I've offended you, I'm not good at lists :(
You most certainly
did not offend me, my friend. Far from it. No worries, man.
Daphnis et Chloé
Piano Concerto in G
Piano Concerto for the left hand
La valse
Piano Trio
Quote from: Christo on June 01, 2015, 08:36:16 AM
Not a bad start to begin with. ;) My bet:
Menuet antique (1895, orch. 1929)
Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet, and string quartet (1905)
Daphnis et Chloé (1912)
Le tombeau de Couperin (1917, orch. 1919)
Piano Concerto in G (1929–31)
Time for a small revision: no longer
Daphnis (on renewned listening I found out that's not what I always thought it was, mostly due to the Suites - now I prefer Gabriel Pierné's ballet
Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied and for Ravel I'm now thinking of the 1910 ballet
Ma Mère l'Oye .
Quote from: sanantonio on June 01, 2015, 09:48:55 AM
Ma mère l'oye (either for solo piano or orchestrated)
Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarme
Piano trio in A Minor
Piano Concerto in G
Sonata for Violin and Cello
I am glad to see that I included Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarme in my list. I listened to it last night and realized how much I liked it. The rest of the list also holds up.
Quote from: sanantonio on October 24, 2017, 10:15:08 AM
I am glad to see that I included Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarme in my list. I listened to it last night and realized how much I liked it. The rest of the list also holds up.
Thanks for reminding me about leaving it off my list. :-[ (I'd like to also include
Chansons madécasses,
Histoires naturelles,
Chants populaires and
Deux Mélodies hébraïques. . . And
Ma mère l'oye,
Miroirs,
Gaspard. . .)
Quote from: North Star on June 01, 2015, 09:26:46 AM
L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
Le Tombeau de Couperin Trois Poèmes de Stèphane Mallarmé
Piano Concerto in G
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Piano Trio
Quote from: kyjo on October 24, 2017, 09:08:31 AM
Daphnis et Chloé
Both piano concerti
La valse
Piano Trio
Only four? ???
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 24, 2017, 05:53:57 PM
Only four? ???
Nope, five. I included both piano concerti which I assume would count as two separate works. Believe me, I would've loved to have included 10!
Quote from: kyjo on October 24, 2017, 06:27:08 PM
Nope, five. I included both piano concerti which I assume would count as two separate works. Believe me, I would've loved to have included 10!
Aye, sorry, I misread your list.
Quote from: kyjo on October 24, 2017, 06:27:08 PMNope, five. I included both piano concerti which I assume would count as two separate works. Believe me, I would've loved to have included 10!
Why not post your other five as well? Most of us violate the rules far worse. :D
fave performances in brackets
Gaspard de la nuit (Arrau, Lonquich)
Tombeau de Couperin (Janssen, Collard)
Miroirs (Schuch)
Sonatine (Argerich)
Trio (Richter/Kagan/Gutman)
Quote from: Christo on October 25, 2017, 12:26:58 AM
Why not post your other five as well? Most of us violate the rules far worse. :D
Well, since you asked... :D
String Quartet
Introduction and Allegro
Pavane pour une infante défunteMiroirs (especially the orchestral version of
Alborada del gracioso)
Le Tombeau de Couperin
I can't choose, so many good works, but I know for sure that Daphnis & Chloe and the Concerto in G would be there.
Btw, the Don Quixote Songs should have been 3 times longer, or more, at least in one version - they are such exquisite little works ...
Okay, mine has changed yet again:
Miroirs
Gaspard de la nuit
Ma mère l'Oye (version for piano duo)
Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
L'enfant et les sortilèges