"Having seen and studied all these manuscripts, I kind of sense how Ravel thinks, " Mr. Orenstein says.
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Sautet builds up a needling tension, aided by fine renditions of Ravel at his most difficult and plaintive.
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Ravel originally composed "Mother Goose" in 1910 as a set of duets, for one piano and four hands, for the children of friends.
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But the real test dispelling forever any concern I may have had is in Maurice Ravel's String Quartet in F.
At 20, pianist Benjamin Grosvenor became the Classic Brits' youngest ever male winner, taking the critics' choice prize for his album Chopin, Liszt and Ravel.
Ravel had an exclusive lifetime publishing arrangement with Durand et Cie.
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He hypothesizes that the slip-up in "Mother Goose, " which is actually one of Ravel's simpler scores in terms of harmony and orchestration, was a proofreading lapse on the composer's part.
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Ravel's exclusive publishing arrangement notwithstanding, it's not uncommon for musical works to be published over time by different publishers and subsequently freighted with the conflicting, sometimes overzealous or heavy-handed input of seriatim editors reflecting shifting interpretative mores.
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For many listeners French music means Debussy and Ravel, and their enormous popularity in recent years, something Mr Kenyon equates with the public's thirst for French impressionist painting, is reflected in concert promoters' and record producers' choice of repertory.
"Usually, it's a note here or there or a missing dynamic indication, which will be weeded out by conductors, musicians, librarians or musicologists, " says Mr. Orenstein, a Ravel scholar of 45 years and the author of "A Ravel Reader" (1990).
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The musicologist says that the dropped bassoon line was the largest error he's ever discovered in a Ravel score, though he found numerous other discrepancies between the manuscript and the published score in terms of accent marks, dynamics and tempo changes.
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Each of the five works in repertory is accompanied, in some measure, by the Orion String Quartet, which performs Mozart, Mendelessohn, Ravel and Schubert with winning expertise, despite being intruded on, at random moments, by the kinds of shtick Mr. Jones favors.
There's also an engaging image of the rooftop bar at the Ravel Hotel in Long Island City, where, based on the sparse crowd, long shadows and two female servers in little black dresses chatting idly, the evening cocktail hour is just getting going.
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