SINGING RAVEL

Ravel's choral music is rare. It does, however, have treasures among which Les trois chansons for a cappella choir. His music seems to find an ideal extension with voice and choir. This program proposes to play large pages transcribed for the choir: from Ma Mère L'Oye to Scheherazade via La Vallée des Cloches. Great composers and arrangers have already given their letters of nobility to this Ravelian art of transcription: Gérard Pesson, Thierry Machuel or Clytus Gottwald. For this program, Les Métaboles challenged Thibault Perrine to transcribe for the first time two emblematic works by Ravel: Bolero and La Pavane pour une infante defunte. There is no doubt that these new versions for choir will make it possible to discover these works in a new and unprecedented light!

Co production : la Cité de la Voix, la Cité musicale-Metz

Scores by Maurice Ravel - Éditions Durand
Some scores have been kindly loaned by CEN (resource center dedicated to choral art)